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Tzur Foundation Inc

To collect and distribute funds to the families of widows and orphans to help ensure that the neediest of the community are provided with basic food and clothing, especially at holiday time and happy life cycle events.

$11M
Granted FY2020
35
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$86k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Tzur Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Tzur Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $520k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’20
10
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$828kReligion$771kEducation$53kInternational$23kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2020 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $520,099, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,849,353 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,329,254 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k18 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
$9,550
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATES OF MERCY$86,000
KEREN ORAH$53,000
CONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM$36,135
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHESED VRACHAMIM$23,770
BINYAN FOUNDATION$21,000
EOM FREUND FAMILY FOUNDATION$20,000
THE DONORS FUND$20,000
LEV BAIS YAAKOV$16,200
TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM$14,300
Individual grant recipient$14,250
Individual grant recipient$11,000
KUPAS CHAIM LEVI$10,000
YESHIVA DMONSEY$10,000
KEREN LTORAH STUDENT AID FUND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM: $36k → 6%ZICHRON MENACHEM: $56k → 14%MACHANE KESSER TORAH: $8k → 16%CONGREGATION CHAYA SARA: $24k → 20%THE DONOR FUND: $680k → 11%CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL: $23k → 14%YESHIVA GEDOLAH NER MESHULEM: $51k → 20%KEREN ORAH: $116k → 11%CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED: $23k → 14%OZER DALIM INC: $46k → 20%GATES OF MERCY: $86k → 11%YESHIVA DMONSEY: $10k → 14%CHESED VRACHMIM: $41k → 20%THE DONORS FUND: $69k → 11%CCK CHARITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%UNITED TALMUDIC ACADEMY: $10k → 20%KEREN ORAH: $53k → 11%BAIS HATALMUD GMACH: $14k → 20%CHEVREI LOMDEI TORAH: $43k → 11%BINYAN FOUNDATION: $21k → 20%LAKEWOOD CHEDER: $36k → 11%MESAMCHE LEV: $9k → 20%ZICHRON BINYOMIN: $29k → 11%CONGREGATION CHONEN VNOSEN: $36k → 20%ZECHER YOCHANAN: $25k → 11%BETH ISRAEL: $8k → 20%YESHIVATH RADIN: $24k → 11%CHESED VRACHAMIM: $24k → 11%BAIS FAIGA: $22k → 11%REVACH VHATZOLAH: $22k → 11%LEV BAIS YAAKOV: $16k → 20%THE DONORS FUND: $20k → 11%CONG OHEL MORDECHAI: $11k → 20%CHAZEIK AID FUND: $17k → 11%EOM FREUND FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM: $14k → 11%CONG BAS YISROEL: $24k → 20%ZICHRON YOSEF ARYEH: $10k → 11%KUPAS CHAIM LEVI: $10k → 11%KEREN LTORAH STUDENT AID FUND: $10k → 11%CHASDEI IMAHOS: $10k → 11%CONGREGATION CHAYA SARA: $9k → 11%MOSDOS SANZ OF LAKEWOOD: $8k → 11%CONGREGATION TOLDOS YAKOV YOS: $8k → 11%TOMCHEI TZEDOKAH: $8k → 11%CONGREGATION TIFERES AVROHOM: $7k → 11%HOPE ORGANIZATION: $7k → 11%KEHILA NEW CENTRAL: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 3 repeat orgs$908k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
45

Total granted

$224k
$908k

Still filing today

0%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $476k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
EducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KO
    KEREN ORAH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $169k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $32k
  • CA
    CHAZEIK AID FUND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k

Funded once

  • CG
    CONGREGATION GATES OF MERCY
    one grant, 2020 · $86k
  • ZM
    ZICHRON MENACHEM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $56k
  • YG
    YESHIVA GEDOLAH NER MESHULEM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $51k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 49 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEREN ORAH: $169,300 · OtherKEREN ORAHCONGREGATION GATES OF MERCY: $86,000 · OtherCONGREGATION GATES OF MERCYZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $55,750 · OtherZICHRON MENACHEM INCYESHIVA GEDOLAH NER MESHULEM INC: $50,500 · OtherOZER DALIM INC: $46,442 · OtherCHEVRAH LOMDEI TORAH: $42,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,632 · OtherCONGREGATION BAIS SHALOM INC: $36,135 · OtherCONGREGATION CHONEN VNOSEN: $35,780 · Other+33 more: $474,574 · Other+33 moreDONORS FUND INC: $769,000 · PhilanthropyDONORS FUND INC+2 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $36,000 · EducationTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC: $14,300 · EducationHOPE ORGANIZATION: $6,500 · EducationTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $7,500 · Religion
Other$1,037,913Philanthropy$799,000Education$56,800Religion$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONORS FUND INC: $769,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEOM - FREUND FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC: $14,300 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetKUPAS CHAIM LEVI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 DONORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds EOM - FREUND FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC ↗
  • Who funds KUPAS CHAIM LEVI 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.

The Ojc FundNY24× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tzur Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tzur Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tzur Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tzur Foundation Inc 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.

    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 49 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. 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 $29M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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