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Yeshivas Kesser Yonah at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Yeshivas Kesser Yonah

To operate a 9th through 12th grade parochial/religious school.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Religion$5.4MPhilanthropy$722kHuman Services$264kEducation$208kInternational$126kHealth$25k
02FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $474,160, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,037,873 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $563,713 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
$12,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NER MALKA INC$12,000
KOLLEL HORAAH OF AMERICA INC$12,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL$12,000
CONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV$10,360
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $36k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $29k → 6%NALEH: $20k → 14%NER MALKA INC: $12k → 14%NALEH: $10k → 14%NALEH: $6k → 14%AHAVAS CHESED FUND: $6k → 20%LIBENU: $5k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $33k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $13k → 14%CHICAGO CHESED FUND: $10k → 14%SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE INC: $72k → 11%SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE INC: $47k → 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 37 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
62

Total granted

$3.7M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

49%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +33%
  • IH
    IYUN HAPARSHA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $328k · revenue +20%
  • AO
    ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $133k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M
  • SC
    SHIRAS CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • YR
    YESHIVAS RABEINU CHAIM BERLIN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
Toras Chaim Development Company Inc

Provide a building for a religious school.

Education
5
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Gedola Na'os Yaakov

A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study

Education
7
Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical College Inc

Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.

Education
8
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

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

Education
9
Mesivta Keren Orah

To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.

Education
10
Mifal Tzedaka Vchesed Chasdei Aharo N Inc

Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.

Philanthropy
11
Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivas Toras Zev Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 106 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON: $1,172,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRONOHR SHMUEL: $738,000 · OtherOHR SHMUELCONGREGATION GATES OF MERCY: $328,400 · OtherCONGREGATION GATES OF MERCYSHIRAS CHAIM INC: $300,000 · OtherSHIRAS CHAIM INCCONGREGATION BMBA: $235,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $176,000 · Other+62 more: $1,744,110 · Other+62 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $350,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNIT…DONORS FUND INC: $324,000 · PhilanthropyDONORS FUND…+2 more: $18,500 · PhilanthropyIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $328,000 · ReligionIYUN HAPA…TZUR FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · ReligionTZUR FOUN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HALACHA L'MOSHE INC: $40,000 · ReligionAMERICAN …SHUFRA INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · ReligionLIMUDEI DA'AS INC: $21,600 · Religion+6 more: $68,500 · Religion+6 moreMESORAS HATORAH INC: $185,000 · EducationDRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC: $37,500 · EducationMESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM: $25,400 · EducationPENIMI INC: $22,000 · EducationCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $18,000 · EducationTALMUDIC RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $12,000 · EducationZICHRON ELIYAHU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Education+5 more: $39,360 · EducationSPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE INC: $119,000 · Human ServicesDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $65,250 · Human ServicesCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $55,680 · Human ServicesNALEH INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesNER MALKA INC: $12,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesBEIR YOSEF: $88,500 · InternationalKEREN NESIVOS MOSHE - DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR TORAH CHINUCH IN ISRAEL INC: $37,000 · InternationalCHAIM VCHESED OF RARITAN VALLEY INC: $15,000 · HealthMEOROS INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$4,694,010Philanthropy$692,500Religion$593,100Education$351,260Human Services$298,430International$125,500Health$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $328,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDONORS FUND INC: $324,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMESORAS HATORAH INC: $185,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE INC: $119,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEIR YOSEF: $88,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $65,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO CHESED FUND: $55,680 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA HALACHA L'MOSHE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDRESSED WITH DIGNITY INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKEREN NESIVOS MOSHE - DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR TORAH CHINUCH IN ISRAEL INC: $37,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNALEH INC: $36,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM: $25,400 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSHUFRA INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPENIMI INC: $22,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLIMUDEI DA'AS INC: $21,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVAS TORAS ZEV INC: $18,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAIS MEDRASH L'TORAH A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHAIM VCHESED OF RARITAN VALLEY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF ILLINOIS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTALMUDIC RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNER MALKA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC: $10,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESIVTA OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMEOROS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH-YESHIVAT MIZRACHI LBANIM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIBENU: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTORAS CHESED INC: $5,000 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 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 ↗

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 FundJewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Donors Fund IncJewish Communal FundToras Chesed IncMenachem & Ahuva Shab…Jewish Federation of …Todd a and Raphaela S…Bitton Family Foundat…The Jmg Foundation
The Ojc FundNY48.2× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Yeshivas Kesser Yonah funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yeshivas Kesser Yonah. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Yeshivas Kesser Yonah 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 106 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 2023, released 2023. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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