New York · Nonprofit
TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC
TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,624 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($76,744). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Torah Lishman Institute Inc does
Mission
The organization does research in the area of judaica. Presently, its major work is in the production of the encyclopedia of talmudic disputes and perspectives. It seeks to disseminate its works through publications, lectures and conferences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The shemoneh esrei companion: jews who pray 3 times a day from age 10 to 80 will have recited the shemoneh esrei/amidah prayer over 90,000 times. Ideally, each recitation is to be unique. Each recitation should serve to draw the supplicant to the lord. But unfortunately, most people recite this important prayer by rote. To rectify this state of affairs, the companion serves to make this prayer more meaningful to the masses by analyzing shemoneh esreh on many levels, including: the significance of its structure, the import of key terms and their recurrence throughout the three main sections of the amidah, meaningful insights that are open to all, the heavenly perspectives of the saintly, and of most importance, as a tool to motivate individuals to emulate the almighty's benevolence, thereby accomplishing tikkun o'lam (the rectification of humanity).
$21,668 spent100% of program spendingThe nature of time: this two-volume work will be volumes 11&12 in the encyclopedia of talmudic disputes and perspectivesthe goal of treatise is manifold: 1. To review the judaic sources that deal with the nature of " time" beginning with tanach and talmud through contemporary halakhic works to delineate the different views of time that are being espoused. 2. To explain the different properties of various models of time. 3. To identify the halakhic disputes that implicitly are based on different time models. 4. To calibrate the scientific understanding of time with the weltanschauung of yahadut. 5. To study the zohar's contribution of, "what is time?" 6. To review the talmudic doctrine of retrocausality (le'mafrei'a) in light of contemporary physics. 7. To understand the nature of bein ha'shemashot (twilight). 8. To breathe life and understanding into the holy days of the year. 9. To make each moment of our lives precious and meaningful.
The aggadic perspectives of r. Yehudah b. R. Simone: this work will be volume 13 in the encyclopedia of talmudic disputes and perspectives.r. Yehudah b. R. Simone is a palestinian amora who flourished during the 3rd to 4th centuries ce, authored around 300 teachings, and is known as a remarkable teacher of midrash from a kabbalistic perspective.the institute became interested in his work because of his significant insights into the nature of time. Further delving into his teachings revealed tremendous depth and innovation, especially his formulation of a pre-messianic new world model revealed to the prophet yeshayahu.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,668.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+20%).
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.
41% of TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $11k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC’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
TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 64% · 2019 76% · 2020 67% · 2021 62% · 2022 98% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
71% of TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC'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 $44k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
20% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC?
- TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,624 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($76,744). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $150,624 in grants to TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $76,744 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TORAH LISHMAN INSTITUTE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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