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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,768,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($737,252). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$853k
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What American Friends of Birchas Mordechai does

Mission

Raise funds for charitable purposes

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide grants to yeshiva birchas mordechai and other charitable causes

    $1,208,018 spentof which $1,208,018 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,208,018.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($980k) Expenses 100 ($915k) Net assets 100 ($144k)2018 Revenue 99 ($974k) Expenses 100 ($917k) Net assets 140 ($201k)2019 Revenue 96 ($937k) Expenses 95 ($872k) Net assets 185 ($266k)2020 Revenue 103 ($1.0M) Expenses 99 ($905k) Net assets 255 ($368k)2021 Revenue 133 ($1.3M) Expenses 128 ($1.2M) Net assets 346 ($499k)2022 Revenue 128 ($1.3M) Expenses 122 ($1.1M) Net assets 439 ($633k)2023 Revenue 149 ($1.5M) Expenses 152 ($1.4M) Net assets 488 ($703k)2024 Revenue 147 ($1.4M) Expenses 141 ($1.3M) Net assets 591 ($853k)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (141)Net assets (591)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $706k to $858k (+22%).

$144k
$201k
$266k
$368k
$499k
$633k
$706k
$858k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’17
$57k
’18
$65k
’19
$102k
’20
$131k
’21
$134k
’22
$70k
’23
$149k
’24
7.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $104k → $173k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI.

42%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 55% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 41% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

55% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

69% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $543k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.

NY
NJ
CA
CO
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 1%Fundraising 5%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI?
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,768,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($737,252). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,768,336 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $737,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRCHAS MORDECHAI find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing