Machon By Charitable Trust
Brooklyn, NY · EIN 86-3137021. Reported 29 grants totalling $1,198,000 to 29 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Machon By Charitable Trust, the IRS classifies it as a named trust (NTEE T90).
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $36,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $38,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva Ohr Yitzchak Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bnot Chaya Academy | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | Suffern, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lapid Yeshiva Inc | Rockaway Park, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tafkid | Brooklyn, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bonim Lamokom Zichron Moshe Dov | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manhattan High School for Girls | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zichron Sholom Refal | Brooklyn, NY | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beth Gavriel Bukharian Congregation | Forest Hills, NY | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bnei Aharon Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregation Ezer L Yehudah Inc | Monsey, NY | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Flatbush Volunteers of Hatzoloh Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lev With Love Inc | Lakewood, NJ | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Machananyim | Memphis, TN | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Menucha Chesed Services Corp | Brooklyn, NY | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Agudath Israel of America | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bina Stroke and Brain Injury Assistance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregation Shalom Veshalva | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fresh Start Center | Southfield, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ichud Mosdos Hachinuch in Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Extreme | Lawrence, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Waterbury | Waterbury, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yeshiva Zichron Mayir | Mountain Dale, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Avigdors Helping Hand Inc | Flushing, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shulamith Institute for Girls Inc | Cedarhurst, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gumley Chesed | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neeman Foundation USA | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Quality of Life in Memory of Shilom Neuman Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregation Presidential Estatesinc | Lakewood, NJ | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
88% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $36,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Machon By Charitable Trust's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1617 44TH Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11204.
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