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Zechut Avot 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.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$19kArts & Culture$6kEducation$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,530
MOROCCAN JEWISH HERITAGE FEDERATION INC$6,450
YESHIVA SHAARE TORAH$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THE EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE$2,000
MISHKAN TORAH$1,800
GESHER YEHUDA$1,800
KIPAS HADAYUNIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC$1,800
BE A FRIEND$1,800
KEREN YOM TOV$1,800
SHUVI NAFSHI FOUNDATION$1,200
NESS 26 INC$1,200
SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL$1,100
YDE SCHOOL$1,001
CONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK OF ALLENHURST$1,001
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BE A FRIEND: $2k → 9%YESHIVA SHAARE TORAH: $2k → 14%See schedule attached: $91k → 17%NETIVOT ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $11k → 20%NESS 26 INC: $1k → 15%HILLEL YESHIVA: $1k → 6%MIKDASH ELIYAHU: $877 → 8%KIPAS HADAYUNIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $2k → 14%THE EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 17%GESHER YEHUDA: $2k → 20%CONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK OF ALLENHURST: $1k → 6%MISHKAN TORAH: $2k → 20%SYNAGOGUE OF DEAL: $1k → 6%SHUVI NAFSHI FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%YDE SCHOOL: $1k → 20%CONGREGATION BETH YOSEF: $1k → 20%CARMEI HA'IR: $540 → 20%CONGREGATION CHASIDE: $6k → 20%CONGREGATION CHESED L'AVRAHAM: $2k → 20%KEREN YOM TOV: $2k → 20%MOROCCAN JEWISH HERITAGE FEDERATION INC: $6k → 20%AZRAD CONGREGATION: $1k → 20%NETSA'H ISRAEL INC: $500 → 20%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 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 Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
3
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
5
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

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

Education
6
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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7
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
8
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
9
Yeshivas D'var Torah Inc

Organization raises funds which are disbursed to religious schools of higher education and talmudic research

Philanthropy
10
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
11
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
12
Friends of Yeshiva Orot Ha Teshuba Inc

To provide scholarships for 200 students' rehabilitation in jerusalem, israel and to support religious,educational and charitable organizations in the united states of america.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivat Shaare Torah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ness 26 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

9 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. 9 of the 22 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)
6/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $10,530 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,060 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE INC: $2,000 · OtherTHE EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE INCKIPAS HADAYUNIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $1,800 · OtherKIPAS HADAYUNIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INCMISHKAN TORAH: $1,800 · OtherMISHKAN TORAHGESHER YEHUDA INC: $1,800 · OtherGESHER YEHUDA INC+8 more: $7,018 · Other+8 moreMOROCCAN JEWISH HERITAGE FEDERATION INC: $6,450 · Arts & CultureMOROCCAN JEWISH…KEREN YOM TOV INC: $1,800 · ReligionKEREN YOM TO…NESS 26 INC: $1,200 · ReligionNESS 26 INCShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $1,200 · ReligionShuvi Nafshi…YESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC: $1,001 · ReligionYESHIVAT DAR…YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $2,000 · EducationBE A FRIEND CORP: $1,800 · Philanthropy
Other$33,008Arts & Culture$6,450Religion$5,201Education$2,000Philanthropy$1,800

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 budgetMOROCCAN JEWISH HERITAGE FEDERATION INC: $6,450 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE A FRIEND CORP: $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGESHER YEHUDA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN YOM TOV INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $1,200 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 MOROCCAN JEWISH HERITAGE FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds BE A FRIEND CORP ↗
  • Who funds GESHER YEHUDA INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN YOM TOV INC ↗
  • Who funds NESS 26 INC ↗
  • Who funds Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAT DARCHE ERES INC ↗
  • Who funds NETSAH ISRAEL 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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Ralph S Gindi Fam…The Howard Hoffman & …Jewish Communal FundChehebar Family Found…The Jimmy and Berta K…The Eddie and Rachell…The Maj Franco Family…Ic Hessed FoundationThe Madeb Family Foun…Albert & Melissa Sutt…Cabasso Family Founda…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Chehebar Family Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Eddie and Rachelle Betesh Family Foundation · The Maj Franco Family Charitable Foundation · Ic Hessed Foundation · The Madeb Family Foundation · Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation · Cabasso Family 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 Zechut Avot Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zechut Avot Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 22 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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