· Public charity
Yeshivas Kesser Yonah
To operate a 9th through 12th grade parochial/religious school.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $474,160 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,037,873 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $563,713 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IYUN HAPARSHA INC | $86,000 |
| CONGREGATION OHR SHMUEL | $75,000 |
| DRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC | $37,500 |
| THE TZUR FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MESORAS HATORAH INC | $30,000 |
| DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC | $29,250 |
| GEMACH HARABBONIM NFP | $21,000 |
| PENIMI | $17,000 |
| CHICAGO CHESED FUND | $13,000 |
| KHAI CHASSIDIM | $13,000 |
| HALACHA L'MOSHE | $12,500 |
| KOLLEL HORAAH OF AMERICA INC | $12,000 |
| NER MALKA INC | $12,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $12,000 |
| CONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV | $10,360 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +33%
- IHIYUN HAPARSHA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $328k · revenue +20%
- AOALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA2× · 2021–2022 · $133k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRONone grant, 2022 · $1.2M
- SCSHIRAS CHAIM INCone grant, 2022 · $300k
- YRYESHIVAS RABEINU CHAIM BERLINone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious School
Religious Teaching
Provide a building for a religious school.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
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.
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meoros Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds IYUN HAPARSHA INC ↗
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MESORAS HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEIR YOSEF ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HALACHA L'MOSHE INC ↗
- Who funds DRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN NESIVOS MOSHE - DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR TORAH CHINUCH IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NALEH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Toras Chesed Inc · Menachem & Ahuva Shabat Family Foundation INC · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Yeshivas Kesser Yonah funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Mesoras Hatorah Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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