· Private foundation
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $551k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEGED SHOMAYIM | $231,000 |
| KEREN TIFERETH YISROEL FOUNDATION | $171,030 |
| KOLLEL ZICHRON YESHAYA | $148,500 |
| CONGREGATION MEOR HATEFILLAH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLA OF PATTERSON | $1,600 |
| YESHIVAS RADIN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of its 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 +351% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMEGED SHOMAYIM7× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue -75%
- KZKOLLEL ZICHRON YESHAYA6× · 2018–2024 · $502k
- KTKEREN TIFERETH YISROEL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $176k · revenue +489% · 96% of their budget
Funded once
- DSDARKEI SHMUEL INCone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue -18% · 55% of their budget
- BMBAIS MEDRASH NACHLAS YAAKOVone grant, 2018 · $50k
- EPELIYOHU PINCUSone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.
Religious Teaching
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
To provide religious Jewish education.
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Providing jewish and secular education for high school girls.
The purpose of this organization is to support indigent torah scholars and their families by providing stipends and additional funds at jewish holiday times.
Operation of a parochial grade school in lakewood, new jersey.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 108 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bais Tova Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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