FundersNew York

Yms Foundation Inc

Brooklyn, NY · EIN 31-1732873. Reported 116 grants totalling $611,700 to 81 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,750median grant
$611,700granted, 2020-2023
81organizations funded
16%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,367,850assets, 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. Yms Foundation 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 $2,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $36,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
27 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
52 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
19 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 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
Bobover Yeshiva Bnei ZionBrooklyn, NY$50,000212020
The Ojc FundBrooklyn, NY$40,120632022
Bnos Zion of BobovBrooklyn, NY$36,000112020
Cong Toldos Yakov YosefBrooklyn, NY$30,000212020
Yeshivat Yishrei LevQueens, NY$30,000112021
Cong Lev Someiach AleskBrooklyn, NY$25,000112020
Mikvah of Kensington IncBrooklyn, NY$25,000112020
Yeshiva Ohr TorahMonsey, NY$25,000112021
Ichud Mosdot GurBrooklyn, NY$24,400432022
Nachlat YehoshuaNew York, NY$23,500112021
Bais Esther SchoolBrooklyn, NY$22,600532023
Cong Pirchei ShoshanimHammonton, NJ$20,000112020
Cong Mishkan YecheskelBrooklyn, NY$19,200332022
Tov LkolBrooklyn, NY$18,000112021
Bobover Yeshiva of MonseyBrooklyn, NY$17,600432022
Ach Tov V ChesedBrooklyn, NY$15,000112021
Cong Beth Medrash Meor Yitzchok IncMonsey, NY$10,000112022
Cong Keren EcrahMonsey, NY$10,000112020
Yeshiva Tzoin Yosef Pupa IncSpring Valley, NY$10,000112021
Mishkan YecheskelBrooklyn, NY$9,600212020
Cong Bnai Shloma ZalmanBrooklyn, NY$8,400332022
Beth Medrash Meor YitzchokBrooklyn, NY$8,000222021
American Friends of Neveh ZionFar Rockway, NY$7,850412020
Kedushat ZionBrooklyn, NY$7,600332023
Mosdos Sanz of MonseySpring Valley, NY$7,500222022
VariousSpring Valley, NY$7,500112022
Mosdos Sanz Klausenburg of MonseyMonsey, NY$7,320312020
Central Uta of MonseyAirmont, NY$5,000112021
Congregation Zichron ChaimBrooklyn, NY$5,000112021
Kollel Zichron Chaim D'bobovBrooklyn, NY$5,000112020
U T a of MonseyMonsey, NY$5,000112020
Bnei AvrohomBrooklyn, NY$4,000112022
Cong Bobover Yeshiva of MonseyMonsey, NY$4,000112020
B'nai Levy FoundationBrooklyn, NY$3,600112020
Bnos Yakov Educational for GirlsBrooklyn, NY$3,600112021
Cong Yad Hakohen DushinskyBrooklyn, NY$3,600112023
Cong ZlochevBrooklyn, NY$3,600112020
Yeshivas NovominskBrooklyn, NY$3,600112022
Cong Keren ChasanimBrooklyn, NY$3,000112020
Mesivta Eitz Chaim D'bobovBrooklyn, NY$3,000112020
Congregation Bais BerlinerBrooklyn, NY$2,500112022
Yeshivos Karlin Stolin Beth Aron Veisrael Rabbinical Institute IncBrooklyn, NY$2,500112021
American Freinds of Shaarei DaasBrooklyn, NY$2,300112022
Biala YeshivaBrooklyn, NY$2,300112020
Camp PupaBrooklyn, NY$2,150112020
Ohel Shlomo DovBrooklyn, NY$2,000112021
Mosdos Satmar Bp IncBrooklyn, NY$1,800112023
Torah Academy for GirlsFar Rockaway, NY$1,800112022
Yeshiva Beth Yitzchok DspinkaBrooklyn, NY$1,800112022
Zichron AvrohomBrooklyn, NY$1,800112022
Cong Ohr YisroelBrooklyn, NY$1,520212020
Beth Jacob Teachers SeminaryBrooklyn, NY$1,500112020
Cong Yl South # 8Brooklyn, NY$1,500112020
Keren Refuah IncBrooklyn, NY$1,500112021
Camp Rav TovBrooklyn, NY$1,200112020
Yeshivas KarlinBrooklyn, NY$1,200112020
Bnai Elozer IncBrooklyn, NY$1,000112023
Cong Kahl Chesidei BobovBrooklyn, NY$1,000112020
Cong Pnei MenachemBrooklyn, NY$1,000112020
Cong TalmidieniBrooklyn, NY$1,000112020
Cong Tiferes MosheBrooklyn, NY$1,000112023
Gerer Yeshiva and Mesivta Bais YisroelBrooklyn, NY$1,000112020
Kupas EzrahBrooklyn, NY$1,000112020
Kupas Ezra Keren Ezriel YechielBrooklyn, NY$950432022
Cong Toras Chemed DnitraBrooklyn, NY$750112021
Chizuk USA IncLakewood, NJ$720112021
Cong of LanzutBrooklyn, NY$720112020
Cong Yeshivas Meor HachaimBrooklyn, NY$600112021
Talmud Torah Dchasidei GurBrooklyn, NY$600112021
Congregation Beth JacobBrooklyn, NY$500112021
Kollel Bais YisraelBrooklyn, NY$500112021
Gemach Pinas YikrasBrooklyn, NY$400112020
Cong Ahavas ChesedBrooklyn, NY$380112020
Cong Beth ShmuelBrooklyn, NY$360112020
Cong Kavunas HalevBrooklyn, NY$360112020
Yad VeizerBrooklyn, NY$360112020
Ahavas Tzedokah VochesedBrooklyn, NY$340112020
Cong DrubitchBrooklyn, NY$200112020
Cong Chesev Sofer of PressburgBrooklyn, NY$200112020
Cong Eitz Chaim of BobovMonsey, NY$100112020
Mikvah USA IncBrooklyn, NY$100112020

10 of 81 (12%) 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 16%, 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.

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 42 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
33 grants
Education
8 grants
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202066$337,910$2,650
202127$192,320$3,600
202217$69,670$3,600
20236$11,800$1,900

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. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$591K
New Jersey
$21K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund36 shared recipientsThe Ojc Fund35 shared recipientsBirkas Rosh Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsCohen Ld Family Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsB&m Steinmetz Foundation12 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,750. 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 York.
  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 Yms Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1570 46TH St, Brooklyn, NY, 11219. 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 31-1732873 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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