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Tl Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$69MReligion$26MPhilanthropy$12MInternational$3.5MYouth Development$352kFood & Nutrition$314kEducation$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,113,282
Median grant
1
States reached
$628k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS -SCHEDULE AVAILABLE UPON RE$5,113,282
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Bais Hamedrish Netzach Yisroel: $1.0M → 14%Torah Tmimah Congregation Chasidai: $348k → 17%Congregation Yeshiva of Telshe Alum: $240k → 28%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERE: $1.5M → 7%Zohar Charity And Educational Fund: $995k → 11%Beth Medrash Ohr Chaim Inc: $865k → 14%Friends of the Toras Chochom Instit: $456k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT ATERET: $200k → 7%Beth Medrash Ohr Chaim Inc: $524k → 14%CONG SHAAREI ELIEZER TORNA INC: $250k → 20%Yeshiva Gedolah of Ramapo Inc: $500k → 14%Congregation Beis Shmuel Chabad: $228k → 20%Zichron Chaim Inc: $352k → 14%Congregation Yad Shaul: $500k → 17%Tomche Shabbos of Rockland County: $314k → 14%Beth Medrash Ohr Chaim Inc: $275k → 14%Agudath Israel of America Inc: $515k → 17%CONGREGATION TALMUD TORAH BRESLEV: $400k → 20%CONGREGATION TALMUD TORAH BRESLEV: $300k → 20%Yeshiva Darchei Aliyah: $1.2M → 20%Yeshiva Darchei Aliyah: $1.0M → 20%Yeshiva Darchei Aliyah: $963k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIEV: $2.0M → 20%American Friends of bnai levy Found: $1.1M → 20%FURTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED ON REQ: $37.7M → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIEV: $710k → 20%FURTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED ON REQ: $21.8M → 14%Yeshiva Eitz Chaim of Hillside Inc: $340k → 20%FURTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED ON REQ: $9.8M → 14%American Friends Amshinover Yeshiva: $336k → 20%VARIOUS -SCHEDULE AVAILABLE UPON RE: $5.1M → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIEV: $300k → 20%VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $4.7M → 14%Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed: $2.5M → 20%VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $2.4M → 14%Yeshiva Eitz Chaim of Hillside Inc: $275k → 20%VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $2.4M → 14%Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed: $1.2M → 20%VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $1.5M → 14%Yeshiva Eitz Chaim of Hillside Inc: $185k → 20%Beer Yeshaya: $600k → 14%Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed: $526k → 20%Beer Yeshaya: $600k → 14%CONG ATERES TZVI: $295k → 14%Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed: $515k → 20%Bnei Yerushalayim: $300k → 14%Yeshiva Torah Vodaath: $200k → 20%Congregation B A: $975k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100M · 18 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
44

Total granted

$100M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+31%

Still filing today

33%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $3.1M · revenue +115% · 51% of their budget
  • BY
    BEER YESHAYA CHEDER BEER YESHAYA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +107%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERE
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M
  • BH
    BAIS HAMEDRISH NETZACH YISROEL
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • TZ
    THE ZOHAR CHARITY AND EDUCATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $995k · revenue -34% · 28% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
4
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Tiferet

To solicit, collect and otherwise raise money to support and further the educational work of yeshiva tiferet, a school located in jerusalem, israel, and to generally support, further and advance yeshiva tiferet by all available means and…

Education
8
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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9
Yeshiva Yismach Moshe

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.

International
10
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
11
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshivath Kerem B'yavneh Inc

To provide grants to religious schools providing higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iyun Haparsha Inc; the most unlike its peers is Penimi Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FURTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED ON REQ: $69,299,623 · OtherFURTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED ON REQVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $10,996,619 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSVARIOUS -SCHEDULE AVAILABLE UPON RE: $5,113,282 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $4,696,881 · Other+45 more: $15,029,528 · Other+45 moreYESHIVA DARCHEI ALIYA: $3,136,919 · ReligionYESHIVA EITZ CHAIM OF HILLSIDE INC: $940,800 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT ATERET INC: $325,000 · Religion+3 more: $313,500 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $3,060,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $110,000 · International+1 more: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION: $1,170,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $168,000 · PhilanthropyHELP THE NEEDY YETEV LEV: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBEER YESHAYA CHEDER BEER YESHAYA: $1,200,000 · EducationPENIMI INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE ZOHAR CHARITY AND EDUCATIONAL: $995,000 · Arts & CultureZICHRON CHAIM INC: $352,000 · Youth Development
Other$105,135,933Religion$4,716,219International$3,270,000Philanthropy$1,438,000Education$1,300,000Arts & Culture$995,000Youth Development$352,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA DARCHEI ALIYA: $3,136,919 over 3y, 74% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $3,060,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION: $1,170,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ZOHAR CHARITY AND EDUCATIONAL: $995,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetYESHIVA EITZ CHAIM OF HILLSIDE INC: $940,800 over 4y, 31% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $515,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetZICHRON CHAIM INC: $352,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $314,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INC: $230,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $168,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $113,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $110,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPENIMI INC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF MOSCOW INC: $100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds YESHIVA DARCHEI ALIYA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds BEER YESHAYA CHEDER BEER YESHAYA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNAI LEVY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ZOHAR CHARITY AND EDUCATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA EITZ CHAIM OF HILLSIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ZICHRON CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT ATERET INC ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Murray & Sydell Rosen…Donors Fund IncMalchus FoundationYr Foundation TrustJewish Community Foun…The Basch Family Foun…Jewish Federation of …Associated Jewish Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Ojc FundNY53.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Murray & Sydell Rosenberg Foundationinc · Donors Fund Inc · Malchus Foundation · Yr Foundation Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Basch Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Tl Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tl Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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