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Tzedakah Charitable Foundation

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.

$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$311k
Largest
01What it funds
0148% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$402kInternational$76kHuman Services$49kEducation$28kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$20kArts & Culture$15kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$310,890
Median grant
1
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZOLLIKON INSTITUTE$310,890
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%CHAZAK: $38k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
OH
PA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
FL
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$341k · 3 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
67

Total granted

$341k
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-26%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • ZI
    ZOLLIKON INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $314k · revenue -26% · 62% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k

Funded once

  • GH
    GTO-COMPASSION HOME COLLEGE DORM
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • C
    CHAZAK
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -31%
  • JR
    JAMAICA RELIEF MISSIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Awakening Ministries International

Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.

Religion
2
Prepare Ministries Inc

At Prepare our goal is to prepare every saint to meet the Lord on His day of appearing. To stand before Him with no regret. We seek to raise up an authentic witness of Jesus on earth. We seek to do this through supporting church planters,…

Religion
3
Hickory Christian Academy Inc

Education for grades k thru 12

Education
4
Freedom to Captives

To further the name of christ in an international environment by holding church and evangelistic services including house of prayer and training center for equipping people in futhering christianity. the english language is also taught in…

Human Services
5
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
6
Adventive Cross Cultural Initiatives

ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…

Religion
7
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
8
CrossTalk Global

CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…

Religion
9
Christian Ministries Inc

To serve christian ministries and individuals in their pursuit of a christian education.

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10
Lighthouse Preparatory Academy

The lighthouse preparatory academy's mission is to strengthen families by partnering with parents to develop witnesses for christ through academic excellence and character development

Education
11
Skeels Christian School

The school is committed to making disciples who love god completely and who radically impact the lives of others in the world.

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12
Hope International Ministries

To engage in missionary work and the training and sponsoring of missinoaries to spread and teach the wortd of god and to distribute bibles in conformity with the tenants of worship and service, discipline, rules, regulations, rites,…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aim Right Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Creating Hope 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 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
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

GTO-COMPASSION HOME COLLEGE DORM: $40,000 · OtherGTO-COMPASSION HOME COLLEGE DORMJAMAICA RELIEF MISSIONS: $30,000 · OtherJAMAICA RELIEF MISSIONSWORD OF LIFE INC: $21,000 · OtherWORD OF LIFE INCHAVEN OF HOPE: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherLLOYD MARY ELLEN ESH: $15,000 · OtherJUNEBERRY HILL SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $13,400 · Other+51 more: $184,070 · Other+51 moreZOLLIKON INSTITUTE: $313,890 · EducationZOLLIKON INSTITUTE+2 more: $13,300 · EducationCHAZAK: $37,500 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesAIM RIGHT MINISTRIES: $10,000 · ReligionGOSPEL EXPRESS EVANGELISTIC TEAM MINISTRY INC: $8,000 · ReligionFAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC: $5,335 · HealthPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $5,000 · International
Other$381,970Education$327,190Human Services$42,500Religion$18,000Health$5,335International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZOLLIKON INSTITUTE: $313,890 over 2y, 62% of budgetCHAZAK: $37,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCREATING HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAIM RIGHT MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGOSPEL EXPRESS EVANGELISTIC TEAM MINISTRY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC: $5,335 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 ZOLLIKON INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CHAZAK ↗
  • Who funds CREATING HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds AIM RIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GOSPEL EXPRESS EVANGELISTIC TEAM MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗

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.

Anabaptist FoundationPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Anabaptist Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Tzedakah Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tzedakah Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Tzedakah Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tzedakah Charitable Foundation 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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