· Private foundation
Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
82% of Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donors Fund Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $330k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chabad of Sacramento | $102,500 |
| Donors Fund Inc | $70,000 |
| Talmud Torah Chochmas Shlomo | $31,040 |
| Congregation Bais Medrash Kerem Shl | $30,000 |
| Valley of the Sun JCC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Hatzalah of Michigan | $15,000 |
| Congregation Beth Tefilo Emanuel Ti | $12,000 |
| Keren L Torah | $9,000 |
| Small Donations to Various 501c3 cl | $5,700 |
| TEP | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 5 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- COCHABAD OF SACRAMENTO4× · 2021–2024 · $293k
- CBCONGREGATION BAIS MEDRASH KEREM SHLOMO INC2× · 2022–2023 · $60k
- SDSmall Donations to Various 501c3 cl3× · 2021–2023 · $44k
Funded once
- AFAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Zichroone grant, 2021 · $30k
- BMBais Medrash Letorahone grant, 2021 · $30k
- YGYeshiva Gedolah Ateres Mordechaione grant, 2021 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious School
Advanced torah studies.
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
Religious Teaching
Advanced rabbinical training in talmud, jewish philosophy, outreach to the community.
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
To learn, spread, and study torah
Advance study of the talmud and jewish law by torah scholars
Operation of a post-secondary educational institution providing rabbinical training with a focus on sephardic/middle eastern jewish tradition.
Provide support to further jewish education
To expand torah education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Talmud Torah Chochmas Shlomo and the most unlike its peers is Rabbinical College of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TALMUD TORAH CHOCHMAS SHLOMO ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL CHOSHEN MISHPAT ↗
- Who funds MATAN BSETER ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KEREN L'TORAH ↗
- Who funds Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Meer Family Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.