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Tyf Foundation at a glance

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Tyf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0156% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$357kInternational$3kHuman Services$1kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR$36,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,360
Individual grant recipient$5,400
CONG OHAVEI TORAH$3,755
SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM$720
Individual grant recipient$700
Individual grant recipient$500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAAR HAGDOLAH ELAD$500
MERCAZ HATORAH OF WHITE OAK INC$500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YESHIVA RAV ISACSOHN TORAS EMES ACADEMY: $19k → 14%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $36k → 13%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $15k → 17%CONG BETH TEFILA: $2k → 7%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $9k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $36k → 13%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH B'TZFAT: $3k → 20%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $7k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $28k → 13%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH B'TZFAT: $2k → 20%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $6k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $28k → 13%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $6k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $28k → 13%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $57k → 14%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $5k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $28k → 13%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $10k → 14%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $5k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $28k → 13%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $8k → 14%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $5k → 11%MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $28k → 13%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $8k → 14%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $5k → 11%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $7k → 14%MESIVTA TIFERES JERUSALEM: $10k → 17%KOLLEL BIRCHAS YAAKOV: $5k → 11%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $7k → 14%RABBI LEVI DICKER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $5k → 14%KEREN HASHVIIS: $5k → 11%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $5k → 14%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $4k → 14%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $4k → 14%CONG TEFILA LEMOSHE: $4k → 14%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $4k → 14%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $4k → 14%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $4k → 14%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $3k → 14%CONG OHAVEI TORAH: $3k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$556k · 11 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$556k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+13%

Still filing today

27%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MH
    MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR
    8× · 2018–2025 · $240k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95k

Funded once

  • MH
    MERCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • YR
    YESHIVA RAV ISACSOHN TORAS EMES ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • KH
    KEREN HASHVIIS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -89%
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
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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2
Friends of Nir Kiryat Arba

To promote the study of torah

Religion
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Or Yechiel

Award grants to promote torah study

Religion
6
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
7
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
8
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

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

Religion
9
Friends of Mitzzos Haaretz Inc

To promote religious observance in israel.

—
10
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Keser Bnai Torah

To 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
12
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keren Hashviis Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shalva High School 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

9 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. 9 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $240,000 · OtherMARCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBORIndividual grant recipient: $108,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $56,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMERCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBOR: $33,000 · OtherMERCAZ HATORAH OF BELLE HARBORCONG OHAVEI TORAH: $31,147 · Other+19 more: $37,340 · Other+19 moreKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $5,000 · ReligionMERCAZ HATORAH OF WHITE OAK INC: $4,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM INC: $3,380 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INC: $1,800 · ReligionKEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION: $1,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC: $13,600 · InternationalSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$601,637Religion$15,180International$13,600Education$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC: $13,600 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCAZ HATORAH OF WHITE OAK INC: $4,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM INC: $3,380 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAAR HASHAMAYIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCAZ HATORAH OF WHITE OAK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAAR HASHAMAYIM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK FOUNDATION ↗

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 FundFidelity Investments …
The Ojc FundNY14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%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
    5get 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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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