· Private foundation
Tzedek Social Justice Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k37 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LAURA ELENA PADILLA RODRIQUEZ | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCenter for Participatory Change2× · 2017–2018 · $71k · revenue +12%
- FFFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $68k · revenue +39%
- YOYWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $36k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
The Racial Justice Coalition includes representatives of organizations in Asheville-Buncombe County with racial justice in our missions. We come together in commitment to racial equity and to advocate for the rights of people of color.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
The Coalition is a Statewide Forum Providing a Unifying Vision to End Sexual Violence
NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…
To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…
Our mission is to educate, advocate and organize for a more just and sustainable local economy that works for all in Western North Carolina.
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 132 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 Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Participatory Change ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds Our Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ASHEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tzedek Social Justice Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tzedek Social Justice Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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