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The Moshe Ben Shlomo Charitable

Baltimore, MD · EIN 45-3820126. Reported 84 grants totalling $463,835 to 49 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$463,835granted, 2020-2024
49organizations funded
37%of grantees funded again the next year

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. The Moshe Ben Shlomo Charitable 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $7,858; the smallest was $500 and the largest $28,300. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
10 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
35 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
24 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 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
Bnos DevoraLakewood, NJ$74,081552024
Machzikei YisroelLakewood, NJ$52,500442024
Toras MenachemLakewood, NJ$45,800552024
Torah InstituteBaltimore, MD$34,658442024
Congregation Ohel YonahBaltimore, MD$33,682222024
Shaar HatalmudLakewood, NJ$30,500442024
Mesivta Keser TorahBaltimore, MD$24,850222022
By SeminarMonsey, NY$14,500112023
Bais KailaLakewood, NJ$13,080222024
Bais Din MaysharimLakewood, NJ$13,000222024
Congregation Zichron YisroelLakewood, NJ$11,000112023
Tomchei ShabbosLakewood, NJ$11,000112020
Ein Od MilvadoLakewood, NJ$10,000222022
Yeshiva Toras MosheLakewood, NJ$9,000222024
Kesser TorahBaltimore, MD$8,500112023
Boca Raton SynogagueBoca Raton, FL$8,158222021
Ateres ShimonFar Rockaway, NY$5,000112020
The Elul KollelJackson, NJ$5,000112020
Yeshiva Gedola Zichron MosheLakewood, NJ$5,000112023
Yeshiva Ketana of BensonhurstBrooklyn, NY$5,000112020
American Friends of KoidenovBrooklyn, NY$4,336332022
Simchas EstherPikesville, MD$4,100332022
Yaaros DvashLakewood, NJ$3,500222022
Congregation Nidchei YisroelSpring Valley, NY$3,000112023
Congregation Zichron YishayRiverdale, NY$3,000112023
Ohr TuviaLakewood, NJ$2,900332022
Ner IsraelBaltimore, MD$2,250332023
ChasdeiyehuLakewood, NJ$2,000112020
Kibbutz HtvLakewood, NJ$2,000112020
Tashbar YeshivaLakewood, NJ$2,000112020
Parnassah NetworkLakewood, NJ$1,800112023
KevutzaLakewood, NJ$1,690112020
Congregation Our BoyzLakewood, NJ$1,500112020
Congregation Supporters of ToraLakewood, NJ$1,500222021
Toras EmesBrooklyn, NY$1,200112023
Chesed Keren HatorahBrooklyn, NY$1,000112023
Friends of Bikur CholimBrooklyn, NY$1,000112023
Friends of Bikur Cholim Ezrat AchimBrooklyn, NY$1,000112020
Minyan ShelanuLakewood, NJ$1,000112023
Mosdos Shomrei EmunahMonsey, NY$1,000112023
Onward LivingBoca Raton, FL$1,000112020
Project ExtremeLawrence, NY$1,000112020
Tifereth EliezerLakewood, NJ$1,000112020
Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr HatorahBaltimore, MD$1,000112020
Yeshiva Lavreichim MetzuyanimBrooklyn, NY$1,000222024
Yeshiva Shaar ToraLakewood, NJ$1,000112023
Congregation Yad MosheBrooklyn, NY$750112023
American Friends of HalichotBrooklyn, NY$500112023
ShuvuBrooklyn, NY$500112023

19 of 49 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 37%, across 4 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 105 grants to individuals totalling $516,106 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
16 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant
International Affairs
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202029$129,050$2,000
20218$46,050$2,475
202212$82,670$4,900
202325$130,400$3,000
202410$75,665$5,100

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. 65% 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
$302K
Maryland
$109K
New York
$44K
Florida
$9K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 The Moshe Ben Shlomo Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4010 W Strathmore, Baltimore, MD, 21215. 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 45-3820126 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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