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· Public charity

Torah for Special Children

To promote jewish scholarship and bible study

$95k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Religion$618kEducation$50k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $85,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION WHITE STREET INC$50,000
MOSDOS YETEV LEV OF ANTWERP INC$25,000
CONGREGATION BET AREH$10,000
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 (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $6k → 13%TIFERES CHAIM ARYEH: $7k → 14%CONGREGATION KINYAN TORAH: $25k → 14%CONGREGATION OHR CHADASH: $10k → 20%TTFY: $54k → 11%CONGREGATION SHAREI TORAH: $24k → 14%MOSDOS YETEV LEV OF ANTWERP INC: $25k → 20%CONGREGATION ZICHRON BINYOMIN: $51k → 11%CONGREGATION BET AREH: $22k → 14%RAV CHESED: $10k → 20%CHEDER TORAS ZEV: $50k → 11%KOLLEL SATMAR OF KJ: $17k → 14%CONGREGATION TOV VCHESED: $10k → 20%CONGREGATION WHITE STREET INC: $50k → 11%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV: $14k → 14%GEMACH CHASDEI YITZCHOK: $14k → 20%SUPPORTS OF TORAH: $25k → 11%CONGREGATION BET AREH: $12k → 14%SHIMIE DVAR HASHEM: $6k → 20%TORAH EDUCATION OF AMERICA DBA YESHIVA BAIS HACHINUCH: $20k → 11%CONGREGATION OHEL MORDECHE: $12k → 14%MIDRASH SHLOMO: $30k → 20%CONGREGATION LUTZK LAKEWOOD: $17k → 11%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV: $12k → 14%MIDRASH SHLOMO: $30k → 20%YESHIVA TIFERES CHAYIM ARYEH: $10k → 11%BEIS MORDECHA LEIB OF YETEV LEV KJ: $11k → 14%CONGREGATION SHAARE RAHAMIM: $27k → 20%CONGREGATION LUTZK LAKEWOOD: $10k → 11%CONGREGATION BET AREH: $10k → 14%TEHLAS CHAYA SURA: $5k → 11%SHAREI EZRA: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION OHEL MORDECHE: $7k → 14%BEKUROV INC: $5k → 14%MACHNEH RAV TOV: $10k → 14%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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 5 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$187k
$405k

Still filing today

0%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationReligionOther
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

  • MS
    MIDRASH SHLOMO INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH ARYEH
    3× · 2021–2023 · $44k
  • CY
    CONG YETEV LEV KJ
    2× · 2021–2022 · $37k

Funded once

  • BM
    BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF AMERICA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $54k
  • CZ
    CONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMIN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $51k
  • CT
    CHEDER TORAS ZEV
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +13%
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 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDRASH SHLOMO INC: $60,000 · OtherMIDRASH SHLOMO INCBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF AMERICA: $54,000 · OtherBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF AMERICACONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMIN: $51,001 · OtherCONGREGATION ZICHRONE BINYAMINCONGREGATION WHITE STREET INC: $50,000 · OtherCONGREGATION WHITE STREET INCCONGREGATION BETH ARYEH: $44,200 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ARYEHCONG YETEV LEV KJ: $37,000 · OtherCONG YETEV LEV KJCONGREGATION LUTZK INC: $27,200 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAARE RAHAMIM INC: $26,600 · OtherCONGREGATION KINYAN TORAH: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SUPPORTERS OF TORAH INC: $25,000 · OtherMOSDOS YETEV LEV OF ANTWERP INC: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAREI TORAH: $24,000 · Other+13 more: $153,050 · Other+13 moreCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $50,000 · EducationCHEDER TO…BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $5,700 · EducationBNOS BAIS…OHR CHODOSH INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$602,051Education$55,700Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOHR CHODOSH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
  • Who funds OHR CHODOSH INC ↗
  • Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗

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 FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…The Lexicon Foundatio…Chayim V ChesedJewish Communal FundFk Charitable Foundat…Keren Ish FoundationAmerican Friends of B…Zichron Chaim Charity…The Schwartz Charitab…Zelig and Rifky Weiss…Vyazreim Inc
The Ojc FundNY52.8× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Chayim V Chesed · Jewish Communal Fund · Fk Charitable Foundation · Keren Ish Foundation · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Schwartz Charitable Foundation Inc · Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc · Vyazreim 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 for Special Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Torah for Special Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Cheder Toras Zev: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
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Find your warmest path to Torah for Special Children 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 28 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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