· Public charity
Zecher Avrohom Inc
To provide disadvantaged children and their parents with the tools to become productive, independent and successful.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $956,185 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,421,525 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,465,340 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $413k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $451k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDRASH EMEK HATORAH INC | $133,979 |
| KOLEL PNEI MENACHEM | $93,362 |
| THE TELCOM FOUNDATION TRUST | $62,000 |
| CONG & KOLEL OHEL YESOCHOR DCHASEDI BELZ | $60,000 |
| MECHON MAHARAL TZINITZ | $52,018 |
| KUPAT EIZER NISUIN BAIS YISROEL | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION PNEI MENACHEM | $34,500 |
| DERECH EMUNAH CONGREGATION INC | $30,000 |
| YAD LACHMU ANYU LENITZRUCHIN CHOQ LYISROEL | $30,000 |
| CONGREGATION ACHDUT | $27,650 |
| TOV LKOL | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION MEOR HATEFILLAH | $25,000 |
| YESHIVA YAGDIL TORAH | $22,784 |
| CONGREGATION OAK & VINE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION | $22,500 |
| CONGREGATION BAIS HACHINUCH INC | $22,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $1.2M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
59 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA6× · 2018–2023 · $420k · revenue +88%
- MPMOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $341k · revenue +231% · 69% of their budget
- MHMOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED OF PNEI MENACHEM INC2× · 2022–2023 · $214k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PNEI MENACHEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $398k · revenue +78% · 41% of their budget
- OHOHR HACHAIM HAKADOSHone grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue -26%
- CMCONG MACHNE CHAIM INCone grant, 2023 · $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.
Religious Teaching
publish religious books
Religious School
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vaad Harabbanim L'inyanei Tzeduka Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Telcom Foundation Trust Co Landau. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 23% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 163 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds MOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds MECHON MAHARAL TZINTZ INC ↗
- Who funds MOSDOS HATORAH VHACHESED OF PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds OHR HACHAIM HAKADOSH ↗
- Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TELCOM FOUNDATION TRUST CO LANDAU ↗
- Who funds VAAD HARABBANIM L'INYANEI TZEDUKA INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CENTER OF GUR INC ↗
- Who funds Rav Moshe Feinstein Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP THE BLIND FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
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 · Friends of Mosdot Goor · Chaim Maleh Foundation · Alternative Energy Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc · Park Charitable Trust · Eastlawn Foundation · Westlawn Foundation · Birchas Mordechai Charitable Foundation · The Tzedakah Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund
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 Zecher Avrohom Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.