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Tzedek Social Justice Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$292k
Granted FY2021
41
Grants FY2021
41
Organizations funded FY2021
83%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 64
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$947k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 83% of the organizations Tzedek Social Justice Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202141$292k83%
FY202064$385k94%
FY201837$305k78%
FY20179$148kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$911kPhilanthropy$104kHealth$36kHuman Services$36kReligion$36kEmployment$3kEducation$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc$71,402216%
Center for Participatory Change$71,402218%
Fund for Southern Communities Inc$67,60225%
YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc$36,40221%
Campaign For Southern Equality$36,40222%
Our Voice Inc$36,40222%
Jewish Community Center of Asheville Inc$36,40220%
Green Opportunities Inc$3,40010%
Asheville City Schools Foundation Inc$1,60010%

Plus 123 recipients with no EIN on record ($768k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tzedek Social Justice Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLatino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc: $71,402 over 2y, 16% of budgetCenter for Participatory Change: $71,402 over 2y, 18% of budgetFund for Southern Communities Inc: $67,602 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetYWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc: $36,402 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $36,402 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOur Voice Inc: $36,402 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJewish Community Center of Asheville Inc: $36,402 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreen Opportunities Inc: $3,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsheville City Schools Foundation Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Dogwood Health TrustThe Community Foundat…The Morton and Barbar…United Way of Ashevil…Wnc Bridge FoundationZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dogwood Health TrustNC21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Tzedek Social Justice Fund?

Find your warmest path to Tzedek Social Justice Fund 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.

About Tzedek Social Justice Fund

How much does Tzedek Social Justice Fund give?
Tzedek Social Justice Fund reported 41 grants totaling $292,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Tzedek Social Justice Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Civil Rights (13%), Philanthropy (1%), Health (1%).
Who are Tzedek Social Justice Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc ($71k), Center for Participatory Change ($71k), Fund for Southern Communities Inc ($68k).
Does Tzedek Social Justice Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tzedek Social Justice Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tzedek Social Justice Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, The Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation.
Where is Tzedek Social Justice Fund based?
Tzedek Social Justice Fund is based in NC.

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 132 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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