· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $38,600 |
| United Jewish Federation of Pgh | $18,000 |
| Congregation Poale Zedeck | $11,775 |
| Aleph Institute | $4,000 |
| Film Pittsburgh | $3,000 |
| Jewish Cemetery and Burial Assoc | $2,000 |
| Anti Defamation League | $2,000 |
| Jewish Family and Community Svcs | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,680 |
| Jewish National Fund | $1,250 |
| Jewish Assistance Fund | $1,000 |
| Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation | $1,000 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum | $1,000 |
| National Conf of Synagogue Youth | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FPFILM PITTSBURGH6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +71%
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +35%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UJUnited Jewish Fed of Pittsburghone grant, 2020 · $9k
- CHCARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +8%
- JAJewish Agency for Israelone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Phlf works within a 250-mile radius of pittsburgh, pennsylvania to: identify and save historically significant places; renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms and historically designated landscapes;…
The mission of penn hillel is to identify and prioritize the important issues and needs of our local and global community, then organize and mobilize human and financial resources to successfully impact them. penn hillel focuses on jewish…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FILM PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARRIAGE HOUSE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI AVOS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tzedakah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tzedakah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Co in Station 70: 36% of income from government
How this is measured
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