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Key Investments Foundation

Spring Valley, NY · EIN 81-4572760. Reported 40 grants totalling $209,695 to 26 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,350median grant
$209,695granted, 2021-2025
26recipients, as named on its returns
30%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,683,579assets, 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. Key Investments Foundation 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 $2,350. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,236; the smallest was $67 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
25 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 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
Cong Keren EcrahMonsey, NY$53,900442025
Chesed Charity FundEdison, NJ$30,000112024
Chasdei DovidBrroklyn, NY$20,000112025
BmgLakewood, NJ$17,400222022
Mosdos Zos LyaakovLakewood, NJ$11,800222023
Yeshiva Spring ValleyMonsey, NY$11,700332025
Bais Yaakov of Spring ValleyMonsey, NY$10,285332024
Yeshiva Chofetz ChaimMonsey, NY$10,000112021
Cong Bais EliezerBrooklyn, NY$8,600332025
VariousLakewood, NJ$5,303222022
Cong Ateres BnoisMonsey, NY$4,000112021
American Friends of Daas AharonLakewood, NJ$3,600112023
Cong Noam ENanuet, NY$3,600112021
Yeshiva Orchos ChaimLakewood, NJ$3,300112023
Lanaar ElementaryAventura, FL$2,500112024
Cong Talmud TorahMonsey, NY$2,200112021
Mikva of Rockland CountyMonsey, NY$2,000222022
The Lakewood ChederLakewood, NJ$2,000222024
American Friends of Yeshiva of KodsBrooklyn, NY$1,800112023
Cong Beth DovidMonsey, NY$1,000112021
Kochvei OhrLakewood, NJ$1,000112023
Mesivta Torah TemimaBrooklyn, NY$1,000112023
Aid LshalomBrooklyn, NY$987112024
Cong OstrowSpring Valley, NY$720112024
Keren Zichron GedalyahuBrooklyn, NY$500112024
Lev BerelLakewood, NJ$500112023

9 of 26 (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 30%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 12 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.

Religion
7 grants
Education
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$37,286$3,800
20224$24,467$5,500
202312$54,900$1,800
202410$43,242$1,067
20254$49,800$12,650

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

63% 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
$132K
New Jersey
$75K
Florida
$2K

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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 Fund8 shared recipientsThe Ojc Fund8 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsJewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,350. 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 Key Investments Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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: 26 Pleasant Ridge Rd, Spring Valley, NY, 10977. 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 81-4572760 · 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.

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