How much does Traditional Fund Inc give?

Traditional Fund Inc reported 68 grants totaling $569,313 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Traditional Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (51%), International (22%), Food & Nutrition (12%).

Who are Traditional Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Central Fund of Israel ($400k), Chochmat Shlomo USA Inc Co Herbert Schuster ($345k), Israel Food Distribution Inc Co Mr Avi Schoemann ($327k).

Does Traditional Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Traditional Fund Inc 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 Traditional Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore.

Where is Traditional Fund Inc based?

Traditional Fund Inc is based in NJ.

Traditional Fund Inc

Traditional Fund Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Traditional Fund Inc

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.

$569k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$153k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.4MInternational$636kFood & Nutrition$329kHousing & Shelter$104kHuman Services$75kPhilanthropy$64kEducation$51kYouth Development$41kOther$0

02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k53 grants · $128k
$10k–50k13 grants · $228k
$50k–250k2 grants · $213k

$2,772

Median grant

States reached

$877k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC	$153,054
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC	$60,000
YESHIVA TORAT EMET	$36,000
GATEWAYS	$35,750
ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH	$23,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT D'MIR	$21,600
TORCH	$20,000
NE'EMAN FOUNDATION USA	$18,000
UNITED COMMUNITY FUND	$11,800
YESHIVA ARZEI LEVANON	$11,075
CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM	$10,554
CONGREGATION AYSHEL AVRAHAM	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HARAAYON	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL	$10,000
MAAYANOT	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Traditional Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 24%.

Traditional Fund Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 33% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 82 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+9%

Still filing today

43%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalReligionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

CF
Central Fund of Israel
2× · 2021–2022 · $400k · revenue +98%
CS
CHOCHMAT SHLOMO USA INC CO HERBERT SCHUSTER
6× · 2018–2024 · $345k · revenue +887%
IF
ISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN
8× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue +208%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC
one grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +6%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI AKIVA
one grant, 2022 · $25k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KO TOMAR
one grant, 2022 · $25k

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

Sherit Isroel

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American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International

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

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beitar Illit Advanced Talmud Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 195 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/81

Grantees still filing

51/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,443,630International$887,190Religion$189,075Philanthropy$137,010Education$111,165Human Services$49,210Arts & Culture$14,280

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

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY52.6× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jmg Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Ezra Charitable Trust · Fjc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Cross River Community Foundation · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation

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 Traditional Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Traditional Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

26get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home