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Zelig and Sarah Grossman Foundation at a glance

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Zelig and Sarah Grossman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$32k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.4MHealth$126kEducation$73kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$552Youth Development$360International$96
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
$6,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS CHARITIES$32,044
YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM$9,660
MESIVTA NEZER HATORAH$6,800
ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY$4,336
PEYLIM LEV LACHIM$1,000
YESHIVA EMEK HALACHA$660
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EIZER BACHURIM DMONSEY FRIENDS OF TEENAGERS INC: $18 → 14%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $10 → 14%A TORAH INFERTILITY MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: $50k → 20%A TORAH INFERTILITY MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: $50k → 20%A TORAH INFERTILITY MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE: $25k → 20%MISASKIM CORP: $100 → 20%MISASKIM CORP: $36 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $18 → 20%UNITED CHARITY INSTITUTIONS OF JERUSALEM: $10 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 27 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
41

Total granted

$1.6M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+58%

Still filing today

44%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AT
    A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +346%
  • MN
    MESIVTA NEZER HATORAH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $81k · revenue +100%
  • YO
    YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • YO
    YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • BO
    BNOS ORCHOS CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -51%
  • LA
    LADIES AUXILLIARY OF BNOS ORCHOS CHAIM
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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5
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

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

Education
6
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc

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

Education
8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
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
Mesivta Keren Orah

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

Education
12
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesivta of Clifton Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kollel Mlrb 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

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 69 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEV HAEVREI-JEWISH HEART: $600,000 · OtherLEV HAEVREI-JEWISH HEARTAGUDATH BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIM: $325,000 · OtherAGUDATH BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIMAGUDAT BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIM: $250,000 · OtherAGUDAT BIKUR VEZRAT CHOLIMVARIOUS CHARITIES: $57,525 · Other+39 more: $56,676 · OtherMESIVTA NEZER HATORAH: $81,186 · EducationMESIVTA NEZE…YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $69,445 · EducationYESHIVA ORCH…CONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD: $12,550 · EducationCONG OROS BA…ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $9,726 · EducationORLANDO TORA…+3 more: $4,505 · EducationA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $125,036 · Human Services+4 more: $192 · Human ServicesKOLLEL MLRB INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCLZ CHARITABLE FUND INC: $500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR INC FRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR: $180 · PhilanthropyROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 · Philanthropy+2 more: $20 · PhilanthropyALWAYS OUR KIDS INC: $360 · Youth DevelopmentCHAI LIFELINE INC: $207 · HealthGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $30 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC: $28 · InternationalAGUDAS TOV V'CHESED INC: $28 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $10 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BH FOUNDATION INC: $36 · ReligionYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI: $18 · Religion
Other$1,289,201Education$177,412Human Services$125,228Philanthropy$1,800Youth Development$360Health$207International$96Religion$54

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $125,036 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMESIVTA NEZER HATORAH: $81,186 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetYESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $69,445 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD: $12,550 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $9,726 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBNOS ORCHOS CHAIM INC: $3,825 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKOLLEL MLRB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLZ CHARITABLE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATSKILLS HATZALAH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALWAYS OUR KIDS INC: $360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA ZICHRON MAYIR: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva Yesodei Hachaim: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $136 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BH FOUNDATION INC: $36 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS: $30 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC: $28 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDAS TOV V'CHESED INC: $28 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Charity of Jerusalem: $20 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEIZER BACHURIM D'MONSEY FRIENDS OF TEENAGERS INC: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIMPATORIN AID INC: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Commitee for Ahavas Torah Inc: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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 A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA NEZER HATORAH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds CONG OROS BAIS YAAKOV OF LAKEWOOD ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds BNOS ORCHOS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEYLIM LEV LACHIM ↗
  • Who funds KOLLEL MLRB INC ↗
  • Who funds CLZ CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CATSKILLS HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds ALWAYS OUR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ZICHRON MAYIR ↗
  • Who funds Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR INC FRIENDS OF ZICHRON MEIR ↗

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 FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Zichron Chaim Charity…Donors Fund IncJewish Communal FundMd Friedman Family Fo…David & Chaya Zahler …The Ackerman Family F…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…The Fishoff Family Fo…Goldner Family Charit…Yes Ben Dovid Foundat…
The Ojc FundNY49.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Md Friedman Family Foundation · David & Chaya Zahler Foundation Inc · The Ackerman Family Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Goldner Family Charity Foundation · Yes Ben Dovid Foundation Inc

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 Zelig and Sarah Grossman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zelig and Sarah Grossman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Mesivta Nezer Hatorah: 12% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Orlando Torah Academy Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Zelig and Sarah Grossman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zelig and Sarah Grossman Foundation 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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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