· Private foundation
Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $387k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
- $250k+1 grant · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION OHEL YAAKOV | $308,400 |
| OJC FUND | $123,150 |
| CONG CHASDEI YITZCHOK | $104,000 |
| CONG NOAM YAKOV | $67,500 |
| YESHIVA TORAS CHEMED | $47,483 |
| MIFAL EZRA ZICHRON YEHIDA | $46,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,000 |
| YESHIVA OF NITRA | $36,550 |
| KAPAYIM | $31,500 |
| CONG BNEI MEIR MOSHE | $21,300 |
| CHAIM MEDICAL RESOURCE | $20,500 |
| YESHIVA FARM SETTLEMENT | $19,900 |
| EZRAS YAKOV | $15,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +139% since the first grant, against +121% for those funded once.
130 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 19 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KIKAPAYIM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +274%
- CVCHAYIM V CHESED8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +139%
- FOFRIENDS OF BAS AYIN7× · 2017–2023 · $235k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BRISKER YESHIVA INCone grant, 2021 · $36k
- COCONG OHR SHRAGE TZVIone grant, 2022 · $30k
- YKYESHIVA KETER TORAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +100%
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.
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.
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
To provide medical support to families in need
To provide financial assistance to religious and charitable organizations worldwide to help them continue their activities.
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
Charitable work to help people in need
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 299 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE OJC FUND ↗
- Who funds KAPAYIM INC ↗
- Who funds CHAYIM V CHESED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BAS AYIN ↗
- Who funds CHAIM MEDICAL RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YA'ADIR TORAH ↗
- Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HATZOLAH OF WILLIAMSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds REFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Chayim V Chesed · Strulovich Family Foundation Trust · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Nimlach Foundation · Kanfei Yoneh Foundation · Bochner Foundation · Blum Foundation · Hf Foundation · S&E Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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