New York · Private foundation
Torah Defenders Fund
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.
- $160k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $159k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Torah Defenders Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $160k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $91k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $123k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $73k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Orchos Chaim | $40,500 | 4 | 17% |
| Torah Academy for Girls | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Kesher Yehudi | $28,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ohr Naava | $20,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Lev L'achim Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Manhattan High School for Girls | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zichron Menachem Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cheder Toras Zev | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Orchos Chaim | $40,500 | 4 | 17% |
| Torah Academy for Girls | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Kesher Yehudi | $28,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ohr Naava | $20,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Lev L'achim Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Manhattan High School for Girls | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zichron Menachem Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cheder Toras Zev | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Afikim Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Chasdei Yitzchok | $2,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Chasdei Avoth Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Experience | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Belev Echad Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Bnei Torah | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · The Chestnut Foundation · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · Maalot · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Torah Defenders Fund
- How much does Torah Defenders Fund give?
- Torah Defenders Fund reported 27 grants totaling $159,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Torah Defenders Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (66%), Philanthropy (6%), Education (5%).
- Who are Torah Defenders Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Orchos Chaim ($41k), Torah Academy for Girls ($31k), Shuvu Return Inc ($30k).
- Does Torah Defenders Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Torah Defenders Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Torah Defenders Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Fjc.
- Where is Torah Defenders Fund based?
- Torah Defenders Fund is based in NY.
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