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Viola Foundation The

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.

$625k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MReligion$467kEducation$285kInternational$7kArts & Culture$7kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 71 grants below total $163,420, the rows itemized in this filing. The $624,629 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $461,209 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$360
Median grant
—
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mosdos Bais Joseph Tzvi$65,100
Belz Institutions in Israel$20,000
Amer. Fr of Yeshivas Gaon Yaakov$10,000
Friends of Tifereth Zion$10,000
Bensalem Outreach Center$5,500
Tomche Shabbos of Rockland County$5,000
Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia$5,000
Amer. Fr of Nesivos Hatorah$5,000
Amer. Fr of Belz$3,600
Zichron Menachem Inc.$2,680
Agudath Israel of America$2,500
Sinai Academy$2,500
Cong Yam Hachesed V'Hatorah$2,000
Bnos High School$1,800
Amer. Fr of Hidabroot$1,800
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GAON YAAKOV: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GAON YAAKOV: $5k → 14%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 16 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

$311k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+90%

Still filing today

25%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’24
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • YO
    YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +17%
  • AF
    American Friends of Gaon Yakov Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • MH
    MISHMERES HASHOLOM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • CK
    CONG KEREN HAGEMACH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AF
    AMER FRIENDS OF NESIVOS HATORAH
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mosdos Bais Joseph Tzvi: $65,100 · OtherMosdos Bais Joseph TzviKOLLEL ZICHRON SHNEUR INC: $54,300 · OtherKOLLEL ZICHRON SHNEUR INCKAHAL MEKOR CHAIM: $46,295 · OtherKAHAL MEKOR CHAIMCONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED: $36,200 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESEDKOLLEL BE ER MORDECHAI: $21,310 · OtherYESHIVAS NOVOMINSK: $20,960 · OtherBelz Institutions in Israel: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · Other+83 more: $206,330 · Other+83 moreYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $20,500 · EducationAmerican Friends of Gaon Yakov Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHUVU RETURN INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMISHMERES HASHOLOM INC: $7,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $2,500 · InternationalTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $5,360 · Food & Nutrition
Other$488,495Education$20,500Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$10,000International$9,500Food & Nutrition$5,360

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Gaon Yakov Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMISHMERES HASHOLOM INC: $7,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $5,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Gaon Yakov Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISHMERES HASHOLOM INC ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR 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 FundNY21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Folger Family Foundation · Sff Foundation · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Viola Foundation The funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Viola Foundation The. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.

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 98 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $552k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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