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Tzedakah VChesed Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $65,340 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $371,190 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $305,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k33 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Talmudical Academy | $24,500 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Toms River | $5,000 |
| Jerusalem Open House | $4,500 |
| Yeshiva Gedola of Paterson | $4,000 |
| Midrash David Foundation | $3,602 |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel Chaim | $3,600 |
| The Donors Fund | $3,000 |
| LCS | $2,700 |
| KBL | $2,200 |
| Tomchei Torah B'Eretz Yisroel | $2,100 |
| Bais Yaakov High School | $2,000 |
| BRR | $2,000 |
| Congregation Minchas Yehuda | $1,650 |
| Moadim | $1,400 |
| American Friends of Brisker Yeshiva | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $36) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UTUnited Talmudical Academy4× · 2017–2023 · $100k
- LLCS3× · 2021–2023 · $9k
- BYBais Yaakov High School2× · 2022–2023 · $8k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +48%
- CBCONG BNOS DEVORAH INCone grant, 2017 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious Teaching
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Cheder toras zev operates a parochial grade school in lakewood, new jersey.
Provide a building for a religious school.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
To expand torah education
To provide a quality religious and secular education to elementary school students.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
Religious School
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
To learn, spread, and study torah
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kollel Tiferes Shimon Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 111 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · David Rosenbaum Family Foundation · Jsp Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jewish Communal Fund · Kol Sason Foundation Inc · Tifferet Moshe Inc · Fund for Life Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tzedakah VChesed Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bnos Melech of Lakewood Inc — 21% of income from government
- Bnos Bracha Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc — 8% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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