Chaim Maleh Foundation
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting Jewish education and various Jewish causes. Its mission centers on furthering Jewish educational initiatives and providing assistance to indigent families, including widows, orphans, and other underprivileged individuals. The foundation primarily serves the Jewish community, focusing on educational institutions and humanitarian efforts. It predominantly operates within New York, where it allocates most of its funding to local organizations that align with its mission.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A New York–based Jewish educational or human‑service nonprofit with established local presence or an existing referral/relationship to the foundation or its officers.
Good Fit
- • Programs that further Jewish education or provide direct assistance to needy families in New York.
- • Registered charity or synagogue/yeshiva operating in Brooklyn/Monsey area.
- • Existing relationship, board connection, or referral from a known local institution.
Geography
Observed giving is tightly focused in New York; the latest year shows 100% of dollars and grants going to NY recipients and prior years were overwhelmingly in‑state as well.
Recipient Variety
Across the three years the foundation funded many distinct independent recipients (59 in 2022, 71 in 2023 and 10 in 2024), indicating a broadly distributed recipient set overall despite a smaller, more concentrated 2024.
New Applicants
Behavioral evidence shows the funder has repeatedly added new grantees (for example 50 new recipients in 2023 and 8 new in 2024), but the foundation explicitly states it only preselects grantees and there is no public application process, so unfamiliar applicants may be able to enter mainly via solicitation, referral, or relationship rather than a public application.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
