Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Tzedakah 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.
- $410k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $121k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Tzedakah Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 36 | $410k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $314k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $431k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $470k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $369k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $209k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $275k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $453k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Chevra Inc | $432,130 | 8 | 22% |
| Jewish Relief Agency | $220,030 | 6 | 3% |
| Interfaith Neighbors Inc | $118,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Minding Your Mind | $106,447 | 3 | 10% |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kavod | $52,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence | $35,200 | 7 | 0% |
| The Andrew McDonough B Foundation | $30,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Crisis Treatment Center | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 128 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 115 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tzedakah Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Philadelphia Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc · The Specter Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jill and Mark Fishman Foundation
How this is measured
About Tzedakah Foundation
- How much does Tzedakah Foundation give?
- Tzedakah Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $409,930 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Tzedakah Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (22%), Health (17%).
- Who are Tzedakah Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Chevra Inc ($432k), Jewish Relief Agency ($220k), Interfaith Neighbors Inc ($118k).
- Does Tzedakah Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tzedakah Foundation 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 Tzedakah Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erlbaum Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, The Saramar Charitable Fund.
- Where is Tzedakah Foundation based?
- Tzedakah Foundation is based in PA.
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