FundersNew York

The United Elenar Foundation

Brooklyn, NY · EIN 11-6496241. Reported 57 grants totalling $750,260 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$750,260granted, 2021-2024
44organizations funded
18%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,861,129assets, 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. The United Elenar 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 $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $720 and $11,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $145,900. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
15 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
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
Cong Pnei MenachemBrooklyn, NY$152,900332024
Congregation Bais Shifra MiriamMonsey, NY$130,000112021
Zecher AvrohomBrooklyn, NY$56,300332024
Congregation Emunah V'chesedBrooklyn, NY$50,000112022
Mosdos Hatorah VachesedBrooklyn, NY$50,000112023
Yeshiva Shaarei YosherBrooklyn, NY$42,500222022
American Friends of Sevath EmesBrooklyn, NY$41,500222022
Cong Bnei AvrahamBrooklyn, NY$30,000112021
Kupat Eizer Nisuin Bais YisroelBrooklyn, NY$30,000222024
Zichron ShlomoBrooklyn, NY$30,000112022
Talmud Torah Ohr MosheBrooklyn, NY$18,700112024
Cong Ahavas Tzedaka V'chesedBrooklyn, NY$17,140442024
Mesilas Bais YaakovBrooklyn, NY$11,500112024
Bnos ChayaBrooklyn, NY$11,000112024
Cong Yeshiva Bnei TorahBrooklyn, NY$11,000112024
Chasdei AvosMonroe, NY$10,000112023
Cong Lev SimchaMonsey, NY$5,500112023
Cong Ohr YisroelBrooklyn, NY$5,500222022
Cogregation KozevaBrooklyn, NY$5,250112021
Congregation Ziv YisroelBrooklyn, NY$5,000112021
Mesivta Bais YisroelBrooklyn, NY$5,000112022
Tiferes EzrielBrooklyn, NY$5,000112023
Various 501 C(3)- 250 and UnderBrooklyn, NY$3,050222023
Chaim Medical ResourceMonroe, NY$2,800222024
Global Center of GurBrooklyn, NY$2,750112021
Keren HaleveimBrooklyn, NY$2,500112021
Yeshiva KetanaStaten Island, NY$2,400112023
Congrgation Zichron AvrahamBrooklyn, NY$2,200112021
Notzer Chesed IncBrooklyn, NY$1,900112023
Congregation Crown HeightsBrooklyn, NY$1,850112021
Kollel Bais Talmud LehoroahBrooklyn, NY$1,800112024
Congregation Shem MshmuelBrooklyn, NY$1,250112021
Ahavat Yisroel HumanityBrooklyn, NY$500112023
Chosen Yeshias IncBrooklyn, NY$500112023
RccsBrooklyn, NY$500112021
Tikva LedorosBrooklyn, NY$500112021
Beth OlothBrooklyn, NY$360112024
Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal HanessBrooklyn, NY$350112024
Keren Zichron Aryeh LeibBrooklyn, NY$300112024
Kupath Rambahn Kolel PolinBrooklyn, NY$300112022
Yeshiva Yagdil TorahBrooklyn, NY$200112023
Amedei Tzion of BobovBrooklyn, NY$180112021
Bais AvrahamBrooklyn, NY$180112022
Mesamche LevBrooklyn, NY$100112021

9 of 44 (20%) 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 18%, 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 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
18 grants
Human Services
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant
Employment
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$273,640$2,500
202211$150,050$5,000
202312$98,000$3,700
202413$228,570$1,800

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

Brooklyn, NY
$600K
Monsey, NY
$136K
Monroe, NY
$13K
Staten Island, NY
$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 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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. 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 The United Elenar Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5223 15 Avenue, 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 11-6496241 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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