· Private foundation
Zichron Bonim V'Bonos 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Zichron Bonim V'Bonos Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Zichron Bonim V'Bonos Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $165k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k24 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUVAS SADIE | $60,000 |
| THE DONOR'S FUND | $35,000 |
| BELZ INSTITUTION IN ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA BETH MOSHE | $9,000 |
| LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| BTY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YESHIVA MEOR HATORAH | $4,000 |
| TALMUD TORAH DARCHEI AVOSEINU | $4,000 |
| YESHIVA KEREN ORAH - MATNAS MICHOEL FUND | $3,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OF KODSHIM | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF CLIFFWOOD | $2,000 |
| YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH | $1,750 |
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 (FY22–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUVAS SADIE2× · 2022–2023 · $96k · revenue +3%
- LCLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +14%
- TTTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- BSBAIS SHAINDELgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +202%
- YRYEMENITE RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Religious Teaching
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
Operation of an educational institution for preschool and elementary school-aged children, providing both religous and secular education.
Religious School
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…
Charity and education in u.s. and israel
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Support of religious schools in Israel
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 54 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
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 DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TENUVAS SADIE ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OF KODSHIM ↗
- Who funds TALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA KEREN ORAH ↗
- Who funds OORAH INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS SHAINDEL ↗
- Who funds LAMDEINU INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL BLAU LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE 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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Lakewood Cheder School Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Meer Family Foundation · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zichron Bonim V'Bonos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zichron Bonim V'Bonos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mesivta Keren Orah: 10% of income from government
- Meiras Bais Yaakov Inc: 7% of income from government
- Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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