Illinois · Nonprofit
MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM
MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,824,043 to it, the largest being ZICHRON YECHIEL MECHEL FOUNDATION ($2,391,216). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $-359163
What Mesivta Shaarei Adirim does
Mission
To empower our talmidim to be true bnei torah. Inspiring lifelong growth, through building confidence and a can do attitude, and by nurturing life skills.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
High school for boys - Mesivta Shaarei Adirim is a high school for boys in grades 9-12 with a dual curriculum. Msa strives to imbue our students with self-confidence, motivation, perseverance, and responsibility, so that they may shine in their own individual way, and be inspired to succeed in all facets of their lives. We guide, nurture, and train our students through real life training and scenarios, and we challenge them to develop the skills they will need as adults.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.6M.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM’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
MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 97% · 2020 86% · 2021 94% · 2022 48% · 2023 81% — 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
43% of MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,266 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,266 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2021
Organizations like MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM?
- MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,824,043 to it, the largest being ZICHRON YECHIEL MECHEL FOUNDATION ($2,391,216). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,824,043 in grants to MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM?
- ZICHRON YECHIEL MECHEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,391,216 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESIVTA SHAAREI ADIRIM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), 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