FundersNew Jersey

Dirshu International Inc

Lakewood, NJ · EIN 26-1870154. Reported 109 grants totalling $491,207 to 74 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,250median grant
$491,207granted, 2021-2024
74organizations funded
46%of grantees funded again the next year
$13,704assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Dirshu International Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $6,500; the smallest was $75 and the largest $27,205. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
26 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
30 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Bais LeahLakewood, NJ$53,839442024
Yeshiva Keren OrahLakewood, NJ$45,300332024
Yeshivas Stolin KarlinLakewood, NJ$26,000222024
Shiras ChaimLakewood, NJ$25,030332023
Lakewood Cheder SchoolLakewood, NJ$21,911332023
Project WitnessBrooklyn, NY$20,000222022
Yeshiva Ohr MosheLakewood, NJ$18,600112024
Bais TovaLakewood, NJ$17,500332023
Bais RochelLakewood, NJ$15,800222024
Talmud Torah Bais AvrohomLakewood, NJ$15,700442024
Bais Medrash Mayan HatorahLakewood, NJ$15,000222022
MisaskimBrooklyn, NY$15,000222022
Yeshiva Gedolah Tiferes YerachmielLakewood, NJ$15,000222023
Yeshiva Orchos ChaimLakewood, NJ$15,000332023
Congregation Ginzei YosefBrooklyn, NY$13,900222024
Mesivtha Tifereth JerusalemNew York, NY$10,800332023
Congregation Anshei FallsburgFallsburg, NY$10,000112021
Mesivta Ohr YisroelLakewood, NJ$9,000332023
American Friends of Keren Toras ChessedLakewood, NJ$8,132222024
Keren YakovEdison, NJ$7,000112024
The Ny SeminaryBrooklyn, NY$7,000112024
Meoros Bais YaakovLakewood, NJ$6,500112024
Ezras YisraelBrooklyn, NY$5,250112024
Beth Medrash GovohaLakewood, NJ$5,000112021
Chevra Kadisha Yerushalayim IncBrooklyn, NY$5,000112022
Nachlas YisroelLakewood, NJ$5,000112023
Zimras ChaimLakewood, NJ$5,000112023
Mesivta Shevet HaleviLakewood, NJ$4,800112024
Yeshiva Orchos HatorahLakewood, NJ$4,800112023
Bais ShaindelLakewood, NJ$4,500112023
Ner MoisheLakewood, NJ$4,100222023
Congregation Pre AhronLakewood, NJ$4,000112024
Camp Arugath HabosemSouth Fallsburg, NY$3,475112024
Ohr YechezkelLakewood, NJ$3,250112023
Bais ElimelechLakewood, NJ$3,136222024
Keren Chaim OsherLakewood, NJ$3,000112022
Keren AsherLakewood, NJ$2,895222024
Yeshiva Ohr HachaimLakewood, NJ$2,450222022
Camp Degel HatorahLakewood, NJ$2,150112022
Bais HoraahLakewood, NJ$1,800112021
Nezer HatorahLakewood, NJ$1,800112023
Yeshiva Ohr HameirLakewood, NJ$1,686112021
Yeshiva Knesses Bais AhronLakewood, NJ$1,670112021
Kupat Ha'irBrooklyn, NY$1,600112024
Machne Yakov Yosef SkverSwan Lake, NY$1,475112024
Congregation Chasdei TzviBrooklyn, NY$1,460112022
Shaarei TefilahLakewood, NJ$1,440442024
Bais ElazarLakewood, NJ$1,400112024
Ein Od MilvadoLakewood, NJ$1,200112024
Mesivta Bais YisroelBrooklyn, NY$1,200112024
Ezras AchimAirmont, NY$1,092112024
A TimeBrooklyn, NY$1,000112024
Bnos BinaLakewood, NJ$1,000112024
Shaarie YosherBrooklyn, NY$1,000112021
Tzur FoundationLakewood, NJ$1,000112024
Yeshiva Shaarei ArazimSuffern, NY$1,000112021
Cong StolinLakewood, NJ$890112024
Congregation Melrose CourtLakewood, NJ$800112024
Likras ShabbosLakewood, NJ$750112024
Chasam SoferLakewood, NJ$700112024
Kehilas YakovLakewood, NJ$700112024
Yeshiva Cheshkas HatorahLakewood, NJ$688112024
Camp BaiseinuFerndale, NY$600112024
Camp BnosNew York, NY$600112022
Bnos MelechLakewood, NJ$500112024
Tiferes ShmuelBrooklyn, NY$450112022
Chomesh- Kollel InternationalLakewood, NJ$368112024
Congregation Shaarei ChesedMonsey, NY$360112021
Yeshiva Mekor ChaimLakewood, NJ$360112024
Bais TefilaLakewood, NJ$300112022
Tiferes MordechaiBrooklyn, NY$200112022
Bais Medrash of BrickBrick, NJ$125112024
Yeshiva Gedolah of WaterburyWaterbury, CT$100112024
Shiras DevorahLakewood, NJ$75112022

22 of 74 (30%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 46%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 8 grants to individuals totalling $1,016,321 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
18 grants
Education
15 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$96,194$4,300
202224$99,182$3,000
202324$132,306$4,650
202439$163,525$1,092

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 79% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Jersey
$389K
New York
$102K
Connecticut
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,250. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Dirshu International Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 911 E County Line Rd, Lakewood, NJ, 08701. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 26-1870154 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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