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Torah Community Fund Inc

The organization's mission is to support orthodox jewish religious communities in israel in connection with a broad range of religious and social needs and activities, including wihtout limitation the support of religious practice and observance, physical communal infrastructure needs and social communal needs, by building and…

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

88% of Torah Community Fund Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
4
’21
3
’22
3
’23
4
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$1.6MReligion$741kFood & Nutrition$24kEducation$12k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $1,861,140, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,943,140 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,082,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$74,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS IN$1,640,840
TORAH CENTER FOR HIGHER RABBI$127,000
Congregation Bais Shalom$74,500
KEREN CHASSANIM OF SAAD LTALM$11,200
KOLLEL TORAH INC$7,600
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEER HATO: $7k → 8%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.1M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$1.1M · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CHARITABLE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 3 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +196% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$320k
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+196%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • CB
    CONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $285k
  • IF
    ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN
    2× · 2018–2022 · $24k · revenue +196%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERET
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHAMAYIM
    one grant, 2023 · $271k
  • CA
    CONGREGATION ANSHI FALLSBURG
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • OT
    OHR TORAH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +8%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,640,840 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCCONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM INC: $284,500 · OtherCONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM IN…CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHAMAYIM: $271,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHAMAY…CONGREGATION ANSHI FALLSBURG: $21,625 · Other+1 more: $11,200 · OtherTorah Center For Higher Rabbinical Studies Inc: $127,000 · ReligionOHR TORAH INC: $11,000 · ReligionKOLLEL TORAH INC: $7,600 · ReligionISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $23,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERET: $11,800 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BE'ER HATORAHINC: $7,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,640,840Other$588,325Religion$145,600International$23,600Education$11,800Human Services$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,640,840 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTorah Center For Higher Rabbinical Studies Inc: $127,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $23,600 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERET: $11,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOHR TORAH INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKOLLEL TORAH INC: $7,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BE'ER HATORAHINC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

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 FundAssociated Jewish Cha…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Jimmy and Berta K…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
The Ojc FundNY21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Torah Community Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Torah Community Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    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 Torah Community Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Torah Community Fund Inc 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 11 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 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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