· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Valley of the Sun JCC | $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 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- YGYeshiva Gedolah Ateres Mordechaione grant, 2021 · $30k
- BMBais Medrash Letorahone grant, 2021 · $30k
- AFAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Zichroone grant, 2021 · $30k
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 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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zichron Eliyahuand Leah Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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