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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $935,506 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($415,406). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$260k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$936k
Net assets
$21k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What American Friends of Chochmas Hatorah Inc does

Mission

Purpose is to promote observance of the jewish religion and the study of the torah (bible)in the state of israel and to provide assistance to the needy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During 2025 the organization financially assisted educational institutions that educate over one hundred young boys and adult men who are dedicated to torah study.

    $252,260 spentof which $252,260 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $252,260.

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 ($261k) Expenses 100 ($258k) Net assets 100 ($3k)2018 Revenue 189 ($495k) Expenses 193 ($498k) Net assets 15 ($471)2019 Revenue 180 ($471k) Expenses 182 ($471k) Net assets 6 ($190)2020 Revenue 185 ($484k) Expenses 175 ($451k) Net assets 1087 ($33k)2021 Revenue 187 ($489k) Expenses 199 ($514k) Net assets 283 ($9k)2022 Revenue 214 ($558k) Expenses 205 ($530k) Net assets 1214 ($37k)2023 Revenue 184 ($482k) Expenses 176 ($455k) Net assets 2090 ($64k)2024 Revenue 142 ($371k) Expenses 158 ($409k) Net assets 856 ($26k)2025 Revenue 99 ($260k) Expenses 102 ($265k) Net assets 699 ($21k)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (102)Net assets (699)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 $64k to $26k (−59%).

$3k
$471
$190
$33k
$9k
$37k
$64k
$26k
$21k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$281
’19
$33k
’20
−$25k
’21
$28k
’22
$27k
’23
−$38k
’24
−$5k
’25
1.0
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+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $68k → $125k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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 CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

77% 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 CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC.

44%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2019 67% · 2020 44% · 2021 40% · 2022 46% · 2023 47% — 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.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
NJ
CA
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC?
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $935,506 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($415,406). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $935,506 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $415,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHOCHMAS HATORAH INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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