New Jersey · Private foundation
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $580k
- Granted FY2023
- 7
- Grants FY2023
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $580k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $231,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 7 | $580k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $473k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $402k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $610 | 0% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $301k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $241k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 62 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meged Shomayim | $1,205,080 | 7 | 11% |
| Kollel Zichron Yeshaya | $501,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Keren Tifereth Yisroel Foundation Inc | $175,655 | 4 | 96% |
| Darkei Shmuel Inc | $55,000 | 1 | 55% |
| Congregation Meor Hatefillah | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Radin | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Tzvi Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kupas Yom Tov Inc | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakewood Cheder School Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bais Tova Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meged Shomayim | $1,205,080 | 7 | 11% |
| Kollel Zichron Yeshaya | $501,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Keren Tifereth Yisroel Foundation Inc | $175,655 | 4 | 96% |
| Darkei Shmuel Inc | $55,000 | 1 | 55% |
| Congregation Meor Hatefillah | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Radin | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes Tzvi Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kupas Yom Tov Inc | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakewood Cheder School Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bais Tova Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshivas Emek Hatorah Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Eitz Chaim Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Tomchei Shabbos D'Lakewood Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cong Oros Bais Yaakov of Lakewood | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Toras Menachem | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Torah Btzfat Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Jdh Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Keren Tifereth Yisroel Foundation Inc · Goldner Family Charity Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
- How much does Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation give?
- Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $580,130 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (79%), Philanthropy (18%), Education (3%).
- Who are Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Meged Shomayim ($1.2M), Kollel Zichron Yeshaya ($502k), Keren Tifereth Yisroel Foundation Inc ($176k).
- Does Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation, Donors Fund Inc.
- Where is Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation based?
- Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation is based in NJ.
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