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Wachsman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0158% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$163kArts & Culture$66kEducation$37kHuman Services$20kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$3kCommunity Improvement$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$3,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA TORAS MENACHEM$12,000
CONGREGATION RAMAT SCHLOMO$5,000
YESHIVAS MIR YERUSHALAYIM$4,000
SMALL CHARITY AMOUNTS- LESS THAN 1500$3,100
BINYAN TORAH INC$2,400
FRIENDS OF BRISKER YESHIVA$2,000
BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA$1,945
CONGREGATION CHASIDEI BOBOV$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Gemach of Jackson: $5k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 22 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
123

Total granted

$251k
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+5%

Still filing today

9%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalReligionHuman 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

  • BM
    B M G
    6× · 2017–2022 · $72k
  • BD
    Bnos Devorah
    3× · 2018–2020 · $40k
  • YT
    YESHIVA TORAS MENACHEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $22k

Funded once

  • CA
    Cong Ahavas Tzedukah Vochesed
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • MK
    MESIVTA KEREN ORAHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +37%
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

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.

1
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Yeshivat Or Hachaim of Lakewood Inc

Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.

Education
4
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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5
Yeshiva Chayei Olam

Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…

Education
6
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.

Education
7
Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc

Operation of a parochial elementary school, providing education services to students

Education
8
Yeshiva Bais Mordechai of Teaneck

To provide religious Jewish education.

Education
9
Toras Chaim Development Company Inc

Provide a building for a religious school.

Education
10
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students

Education
11
Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc

Yeshiva toras aron is a religious elementary school providing quality education for grades k-8 for the children of lakewood nj.

Education
12
Mesivta Ohr Yisroel Inc

Parochial secondary school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Toras Chaim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohel Torah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 147 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

B M G: $72,456 · OtherB M GBnos Devorah: $40,000 · OtherBnos DevorahYESHIVA TORAS MENACHEM: $22,000 · OtherYESHIVA TORAS MENACHEMKeren Orah: $21,556 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,194 · OtherCong Ahavas Tzedukah Vochesed: $14,000 · Other+133 more: $220,329 · Other+133 moreMESIVTA KEREN ORAH: $9,413 · EducationYESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH INC: $6,000 · EducationLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationBAIS TOVA INC: $3,500 · EducationYESHIVA GEDOLA NA'OS YAAKOV: $2,100 · EducationGEMACH OF JACKSON INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $4,200 · InternationalCHOFETZ CHAIM OF LAKEWOOD: $100 · Religion
Other$411,535Education$26,013Human Services$5,000International$4,200Religion$100

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 TORAS CHAIM INC: $7,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEMACH OF JACKSON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS TOVA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA NA'OS YAAKOV: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMUNAH VCHESED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM OF LAKEWOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA: $100 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 MESIVTA KEREN ORAH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GEMACH OF JACKSON INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds BAIS TOVA 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 FundNY40.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Sorala Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · The R & S Family Foundation Inc · The Weiskopf Family Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Mesivta Keren Orah: 10% of income from government
  • Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 147 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.

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