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Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation at a glance

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Zichron Yechiel Mechel 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.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
119
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$21MHuman Services$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.6MInternational$657kFood & Nutrition$153kArts & Culture$146kHealth$141kEducation$103kOther$0
02FY2024 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.2M
$18,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OJC FUND$900,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS$893,834
KOLLEL SHABBOS KODESH (KARNOH SHEL TORAH)$650,000
TOVA U'VRUCHA INC$452,920
CHAYIM VCHESED INC$407,197
MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM$348,325
DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC$292,500
KEREN OLAM HATORAH$291,669
CONG KEREN ATERES YISOCHER DOV DZABLITOV$235,503
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TELZSTONE INC$226,000
CONGREGATION CHONEN VNOSEN$158,550
TZUR FOUNDATION$143,300
YAAZORU INC$138,850
KUPAS TZEDAKA VCHESED$120,000
CONG PRI HOORETZ$112,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TZIDKAS AVRAHAM INC: $15k → 28%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $18k → 11%SULAM: $150 → 8%TZIDKAS AVRAHAM INC: $5k → 28%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $13k → 11%FRIENDS OF BET ELAZRAKI-EMTC: $500 → 7%YAD CHAYA INC: $3k → 13%YAD CHAYA INC: $2k → 13%ISRAEL MAGEN FUND INC: $5k → 7%AL KANFEI NISHARIM: $25k → 6%TIKVAH LAYELED FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%AL KANFEI NESHARIM: $20k → 6%AL KANFEI NISHARIM: $20k → 6%AL KANFEI NISHARIM: $18k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $305k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $293k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $288k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $282k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $28k → 6%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25k → 6%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $30k → 11%ACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5k → 6%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $25k → 11%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $20k → 11%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $800 → 14%LAKEWOOD KESHER INC: $15k → 11%LAKEWOOD KESHER INC: $15k → 11%LAKEWOOD KESHER INC: $15k → 11%CHASDEI YONA MEIR INC: $250 → 14%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $1k → 11%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS: $500 → 11%MISHKAN YITZCHAK CORP: $300 → 11%AMERICAN FRIEND OF EMANUEL: $750 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP: $1k → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP INC: $180 → 20%ACHDUS FOUNDATION: $120 → 20%AVIHEM INC: $7k → 20%AVIHEM INC: $5k → 20%AVIHEM INC: $5k → 20%ACHIEZER: $21k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $8k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 135 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

135 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
324

Total granted

$18M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+20%

Still filing today

36%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $971k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CV
    CHAYIM V CHESED
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +96%
  • DM
    DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +50%
  • TF
    TZUR FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $469k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $650k
  • AI
    AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA (VAAD HATZALAH FOR UKRAINE JEWRY)
    one grant, 2022 · $269k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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4
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Amaleh Shel Torah Inc

None

Education
8
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Hamesorah Talmud Torah Inc

Charity and education in u.s. and israel

—
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
12
Sherit Isroel
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lawrence Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

172 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. 172 of the 498 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
157/172
Grantees still filing
106/172
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOVA UVRUCHA INC: $2,196,520 · OtherTOVA UVRUCHA INCKOLLEL SHABBOS KODESH (KARNOH SHEL TORAH): $1,800,000 · OtherKOLLEL SHABBOS KODESH (KARNOH SHEL TORAH)Individual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMESIVTA SHAAREI CHAIM: $697,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $650,000 · Other+141 more: $7,883,929 · Other+141 moreNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $4,804,033 · ReligionNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW D…CHAYIM V CHESED: $1,390,951 · ReligionCHAYIM V CHESEDTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $469,150 · ReligionTZUR FOUNDATION INCYAAZORU INC: $261,800 · Religion+14 more: $806,740 · Religion+14 moreMESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM: $2,391,216 · EducationMESIVTA SHAAREI ADI…THE OJC FUND: $2,350,000 · EducationTHE OJC FUNDAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $296,250 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…+7 more: $185,750 · EducationDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,166,822 · Human ServicesAL KANFEI NISHARIM INC: $83,000 · Human ServicesACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $78,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $76,000 · Human Services+5 more: $120,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $338,375 · InternationalMORASHA OLAMI INC: $200,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL BAIS YECHIEL ESFORMES: $57,000 · International+4 more: $57,600 · InternationalMoadim Uzmanim: $174,700 · PhilanthropyKUPAS TZEDAKAH VCHESED: $120,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $112,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $36,000 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAT DARKAY NISIM: $18,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $37,000 · PhilanthropyYAD ELKA INC: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$14,228,249Religion$7,732,674Education$5,223,216Human Services$1,523,822International$652,975Philanthropy$497,700Food & Nutrition$150,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $4,804,033 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM: $2,391,216 over 4y, 33% of budgetTHE OJC FUND: $2,350,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHAYIM V CHESED: $1,390,951 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,166,822 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $469,150 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $338,375 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $296,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYAAZORU INC: $261,800 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMoadim Uzmanim: $174,700 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetYAD ELKA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $139,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $129,600 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKUPAS TZEDAKAH VCHESED: $120,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC: $112,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHAIM V'CHESSED- CENTER FOR JEWISH VALUES INC: $92,400 over 1y, 35% of budgetAL KANFEI NISHARIM INC: $83,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetACHIEZER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $78,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $76,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF JEWS: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBEITH MATITYAHU CO BERNATH AND ROSENBERG: $60,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL BAIS YECHIEL ESFORMES: $57,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLAKEWOOD KESHER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLAPID YESHIVA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMOSDOS BETH YOSEF ZVI: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $36,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEFESH YEHUDIE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR YESHIVATH RASHBI: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVAS RASHI INC: $26,150 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetRav Chaims Kollelim Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $25,180 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTZIDKAS AVRAHAM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF AYELET HASHACHAR INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetYESHIVAT DARKAY NISIM: $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH YEAR ABROAD: $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAVIHEM INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ramot Torah Schools: $14,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $11,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKODIAKCARE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM ↗
  • Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHAYIM V CHESED ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC ↗
  • Who funds YAAZORU INC ↗
  • Who funds MORASHA OLAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds Moadim Uzmanim ↗
  • Who funds YAD ELKA INC ↗
  • Who funds IYUN HAPARSHA INC ↗
  • Who funds ZICHRON ELIYAHU INC ↗
  • Who funds KUPAS TZEDAKAH VCHESED ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM 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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Ojc FundZichron Chaim Charity…The Jmg FoundationThe Jimmy and Berta K…Associated Jewish Cha…Malchus FoundationThe Basch Family Foun…The Adjmi-Dwek Founda…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…Donors Fund IncThe Setton Foundation
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY163.3× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Jmg Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Malchus Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Donors Fund Inc · The Setton Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 498 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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