Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Tzedakah 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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Tzedakah Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $99k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $86k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $76k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $39k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $34k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $105,960 | 3 | 1% |
| Congregation Poale Zedeck | $20,332 | 4 | n/a |
| Film Pittsburgh | $17,400 | 6 | 1% |
| Aleph Institute Inc | $15,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Humane Animal Rescue | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $6,100 | 5 | 0% |
| JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND | $3,700 | 6 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $2,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Carriage House Children's Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), 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: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char · Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · David S Shapira Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
How this is measured
About Tzedakah Foundation
- How much does Tzedakah Foundation give?
- Tzedakah Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $100,535 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tzedakah Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Philanthropy (26%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Tzedakah Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh ($106k), Congregation Poale Zedeck ($20k), Film Pittsburgh ($17k).
- Does Tzedakah Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char, Isadore & Yetta Joshowitz Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Tzedakah Foundation based?
- Tzedakah Foundation is based in PA.
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