New Jersey · Nonprofit
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,600,805 to it, the largest being THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($15,100,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Mesorah Heritage Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Mesorah Heritage Foundation was created to respond to urgent needs that became apparent in the post-world war ii english-speaking world. These needs continue to grow, in part thanks to the scholarship sponsored by the foundation. In addition, the successful work of the foundation has brought demands from speakers of modern hebrew, french, and spanish to make foundation works available in their languages.the needs met by the foundation are threefold: (I) a large jewish public, including those with a yeshivah education, find it difficult or impossible to study classic jewish texts in the original ancient hebrew or aramaic; and (ii) there is a growing number of people who wish to study the jewish classics, but have little or no knowledge of the languages in which they were written. Even people who speak modern hebrew fluently are not familiar with biblical and rabbinic hebrew or aramaic, the language of talmudic times and much post-talmudic literature. Modern hebrew is much different from the hebrew of 15 centuries ago, and aramaic is a foreign, virtually extinct, language. (iii) there is a need for original works based on the classics and works on such subjects as jewish law as…
$13,633,565 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,633,565.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $21M (+46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $6.7M.
26 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 50% · 2019 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 59% · 2023 44% — 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
35% of MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: 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 MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,600,805 to it, the largest being THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ($15,100,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $36,600,805 in grants to MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- THE SAMUEL AND JEAN FRANKEL JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 121 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