GrantmakersNew York

American Committee for Sanz

Monsey, NY · EIN 13-3818570. Reported 41 grants totalling $3,031,356 to 29 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$42,000median reported grant
$3,031,356granted, 2020-2024
26%of grantees funded again the next year
16%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For American Committee for Sanz, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for international affairs (NTEE Q123).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 16% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 26% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $42,000. Half of what it reported fell between $18,000 and $75,800; the smallest was $7,935 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
8 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Congregation Mahari Srug IncLakewood, NJ$500,000112023
Katten Muchin RosenmanNew York, NY$400,000112023
Ahavat Yisroel Humanity IncBrooklyn, NY$248,555112024
Mifal Hachesed Shefa Chayim VrachmimBrooklyn, NY$187,774222021
Tiferes Yoel IncMonroe, NY$180,000112022
American Friends of Yad Eliezer IncJackson, NJ$158,000112021
Friends of Harim IncStaten Island, NY$149,900222024
Yeshiva Toras YisraelBrooklyn, NY$132,886112023
Ezrat Achim IncBrooklyn, NY$118,800332022
Cong BrashovBrooklyn, NY$118,700112021
American Friends of Biala Institutions of Bnei Brak IsraelLos Angeles, CA$110,000112022
Kollelei Hashas IncBrooklyn, NY$97,140222024
Congregation Darkei Avos Sanz IncBrooklyn, NY$78,550332022
Congregation Shefa ChaimMonsey, NY$72,405222023
Congregation Adas Chasidim IncMonsey, NY$69,280222024
Yad Lachmu Anyu Lenitzruchin Choq LyisroelBrooklyn, NY$59,510112023
Cong Merkas OlumiBrooklyn, NY$50,000112022
Congregation Koil Mitzhalois IncLakewood, NJ$47,500112021
Congregation Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed IncBrooklyn, NY$43,500222024
American Friends of Shefa Chaim VrachamimBrooklyn, NY$42,000112024
Talmud Torah Darkei Avos - MonseySpring Valley, NY$32,935222023
Jewish Lifeline Network IncMonsey, NY$28,000112021
Mosdos Sanz of MonseySpring Valley, NY$25,892222024
The Furniture CorpBayonne, NJ$16,880112020
Cong Beis NusenBrooklyn, NY$15,800112023
Congregation Sanz IncUnion City, NJ$12,608112020
Congregation Ohr YosefMonsey, NY$12,550112021
Ky Chasuna MallMonroe, NY$12,191112020
Cong MishtameresMonsey, NY$10,000112022

10 of 29 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 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.

Religion
16 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20206$201,679$14,744
20219$502,074$33,000
20229$553,845$48,180
202310$1,264,563$46,270
20247$509,195$42,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

72% 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.

New York
$2.2M
New Jersey
$735K
California
$110K

Down to the city

Brooklyn, NY
$1.2M
Lakewood, NJ
$548K
New York, NY
$400K
Monsey, NY
$192K
Monroe, NY
$192K
Jackson, NJ
$158K

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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.

The Ojc Fund20 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsPaypal Charitable Giving Fund5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $42,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. 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 American Committee for Sanz's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 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: Po Box 763, Monsey, NY, 10952.

EIN 13-3818570 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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