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Dr Yashar and Mrs Perie Hirshaut

Lawrence, NY · EIN 47-2452782. Reported 38 grants totalling $126,760 to 23 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$126,760granted, 2020-2024
23recipients, as named on its returns
59%of grantees funded again the next year
$251,162assets, 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. Dr Yashar and Mrs Perie Hirshaut 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $11,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Kehilat AshkenazMonsey, NY$36,000442024
Yeshiva South ShoreHewlett, NY$25,000332024
Torah Academy for GirlsFar Rockaway, NY$15,800332024
Bais Medrash Harbor ViewLawrence, NY$10,000222024
Chevra Hatzola of Far RockawayWoodmere, NY$6,100222022
Cong Kneseth IsraelFar Rockaway, NY$6,000222023
Ateres Miriam Bais Yaakov SchoolFar Rockaway, NY$5,000112024
Yeshiva Darchei TorahFar Rockaway, NY$5,000112024
Yeshiva of Spring ValleySuffern, NY$5,000112021
Shaarei Zedek HospitalNew York, NY$4,500442024
Ezras NashimBrooklyn, NY$2,500332023
Kehila Jakob CongFar Rockaway, NY$1,000112020
Shor Yoshuv InstituteLawrence, NY$1,000112022
Yad Yeshaya Tomchei ShabbosFar Rockaway, NY$1,000112024
Yeshiva of Far RockawayFar Rockaway, NY$1,000112020
Guardian of the SickBrooklyn, NY$500112021
One Israel FundCedarhurst, NY$500112024
Bikur Cholim of Far RockawayLawrence, NY$360112024
American Friends -Laniado HospitalNew York, NY$100112020
Bonei OlamLakewood, NJ$100112020
Chai LifelineLakewood, NJ$100112020
Shalom Task ForceQueens, NY$100112020
Yeshiva UniversityNew York, NY$100112020

8 of 23 (35%) 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 59%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 10 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

International Affairs
4 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Religion
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202010$11,000$300
20215$14,000$2,500
20227$25,200$3,600
20236$30,500$4,000
202410$46,060$5,000

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

100% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$127K
New Jersey
$200

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsThe Ojc Fund10 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 Dr Yashar and Mrs Perie Hirshaut's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 99 Harborview West, Lawrence, NY, 11559. 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 47-2452782 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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