The Ahavas Avraham Foundation concentrates its philanthropy on supporting Orthodox Jewish education in Detroit, primarily through scholarship funding. All recorded grants have gone to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah to underwrite student tuition and related educational scholarship needs, demonstrating a focused, faith-based education mission.
Highly concentrated giving: few, relatively large grants directed to a single repeat grantee; consistent, targeted support for one institution rather than diversified grantmaking.
The most distinctive feature of Ahavas Avraham Foundation’s giving is its repeated, large scholarship support for Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. In the recent grants list, the foundation made multiple seven-figure-scale awards to the Southfield, Michigan school for educational scholarship, including two $500,000 grants in 2025 and several other major awards in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That pattern points to a sustained focus on Orthodox Jewish education rather than a broad portfolio of unrelated causes. The foundation’s grants also show a clear preference for direct scholarship funding tied to tuition support for Jewish day school students. All recorded grants in the provided data point to this education-centered mission, with the school appearing across several years and at several grant sizes. While most of the activity centers on one institution, the awards are not limited to one size band: the foundation has made both smaller scholarship grants and much larger commitments, indicating flexibility within a consistent purpose. Alongside that core pattern, Ahavas Avraham Foundation has also supported a small number of community-service and synagogue-related organizations in Michigan and other US locations, but those grants sit outside the main scholarship focus shown in the recent records.
Ahavas Avraham Foundation’s clearest cause area is Orthodox Jewish schooling. It gave $500,000 to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah for educational scholarship in 2025, and another $300,000 to the same school in 2023 for the same purpose. Those grants anchor a long-running tuition-support pattern for students in a Jewish day school setting. A second area is community services in Jewish and local settings. In 2023, the foundation gave $106,400 to Keren Orah in Lakewood, New Jersey for community services, and $100,000 to Miriam's Well Be'er Miriam in Detroit for the same category. It also awarded $100,000 to V'hechzakta Bo in Detroit for community services. The foundation’s recent list also includes synagogue support. In 2023, it gave $50,000 to Congregation Minchas Yehuda in Brooklyn for a synagogue purpose, and $50,000 to Toras Chaim in Oak Park, Michigan for the same category.
Typical grants cluster around a modest-to-midrange range, with p25 at $1,000, a median of $5,000, and p75 at $10,000. The recent grants list also shows substantially larger awards, which means the foundation uses a broad internal range even while keeping most grants small. Its filings indicate it funds individuals, and its latest 990 is on file for 2025. The pattern in the recent records is strongly recurring: grants appear across 2023, 2024, and 2025, with repeated awards to the same recipient over multiple years rather than one-off gifts only.
$3M
$2.6M
$5.5M
$3M
Most grants fall between $1K and $10K, with a median of $5K.
25th Percentile
$1K
Median
$5K
75th Percentile
$10K
About 40% of grants go to recipients in MI.
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Notable grantees: Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
Ahavas Avraham Foundation gives nationally, but the recent records are heavily concentrated in Michigan. The top state by grant count is Michigan, and 40% of grants go to recipients in the HQ state. Southfield appears repeatedly as a recipient city, along with Detroit and Bloomfield Hills. Outside Michigan, the recent list includes recipients in Lakewood, New Jersey; Teaneck, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; and New York, New York. All recorded grants in the provided country distribution go to US recipients.
Its recent grants center on Orthodox Jewish education, especially tuition and educational scholarship support for Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. The foundation also makes smaller numbers of community-services and synagogue-related grants, but the education pattern is the clearest throughline in the recent records.
The grant-size distribution is small in the middle of the range: p25 is $1,000, median is $5,000, and p75 is $10,000. At the same time, the recent grants list includes much larger awards, showing that the foundation sometimes makes major scholarship grants alongside smaller gifts.
Yes. The recent grants list shows repeated awards across 2023, 2024, and 2025, including multiple grants to the same school over several years. That pattern suggests ongoing support rather than isolated one-time gifts.
Michigan receives the most grants by count, and 40% of all grants go to recipients in the foundation’s HQ state. Recent Michigan recipients include Southfield, Detroit, and Bloomfield Hills, while other grants go to New Jersey and New York recipients.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $500,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $500,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $100,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $50,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| V'BO | DETROIT, MI | $50,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $50,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTHFIELD POLICE | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $45,500 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $45,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $36,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH | DETROIT, MI | $35,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $30,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| SHAREY TZEDEK HOSPITAL | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| V'BO | DETROIT, MI | $25,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| V'BO | DETROIT, MI | $25,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $25,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $23,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $22,890 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $21,900 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $21,500 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $21,050 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $20,462 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| V'BO | DETROIT, MI | $20,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| SX ASSOCIATES LLC | DETROIT, MI | $20,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| RABBI & MRS YOSSI KUNTSLINGER | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $20,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| V'BO | DETROIT, MI | $20,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| KOLLEL BNEI HAYESHIVA | BROOKLYN, NY | $20,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA | PHILADELPHIA, PA | $18,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND | WASHINGTON, DC | $18,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| CONGREGATION ANSE LORTAK | PLANO, TX | $18,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH SHAAREI SHMUEL | LAKEWOOD, NJ | $17,900 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| PNINIM OF AMERICA | LAKEWOOD, NJ | $16,200 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| YESHIVA HADRAS HATORAH | BROOKLYN, NY | $16,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| YESHIVA GEDOLA OF SPRING VALLEY | BROOKLYN, NY | $15,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| KAV L'NOAR FOUNDATION | PASSAIC, NJ | $15,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| FELDHEIM ASSOCIATES LLC | FARMINGTON HILLS, MI | $13,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $12,620 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $12,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $12,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| AMUDIA OHR | LAKEWOOD, NJ | $12,000 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $11,000 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| TORAS CHAIM | OAK PARK, MI | $10,812 | 2025 | SYNAGOGUE |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $10,415 | 2025 | EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP |
| WAYNE COUNTY YOUTH & SENIOR EDU FNDN | DETROIT, MI | $10,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
| DETROIT CHESED | SOUTHFIELD, MI | $10,000 | 2025 | COMMUNITY SERVICES |
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$500,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$500,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$100,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$50,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
V'BO
$50,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$50,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
FRIENDS OF SOUTHFIELD POLICE
COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$45,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$36,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH
$35,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
TORAS CHAIM
$30,000SYNAGOGUE
SHAREY TZEDEK HOSPITAL
$25,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
V'BO
$25,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
V'BO
$25,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
TORAS CHAIM
$25,000SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$23,000SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$22,890SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$21,900SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$21,500SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$21,050SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$20,462SYNAGOGUE
V'BO
$20,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
SX ASSOCIATES LLC
$20,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
RABBI & MRS YOSSI KUNTSLINGER
$20,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
V'BO
$20,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
KOLLEL BNEI HAYESHIVA
$20,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA
$18,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FUND
$18,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
CONGREGATION ANSE LORTAK
$18,000SYNAGOGUE
YESHIVA GEDOLAH SHAAREI SHMUEL
$17,900EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
PNINIM OF AMERICA
$16,200COMMUNITY SERVICES
YESHIVA HADRAS HATORAH
$16,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
YESHIVA GEDOLA OF SPRING VALLEY
$15,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
KAV L'NOAR FOUNDATION
$15,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
FELDHEIM ASSOCIATES LLC
$13,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$12,620EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
TORAS CHAIM
$12,000SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$12,000SYNAGOGUE
AMUDIA OHR
$12,000EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
TORAS CHAIM
$11,000SYNAGOGUE
TORAS CHAIM
$10,812SYNAGOGUE
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
$10,415EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
WAYNE COUNTY YOUTH & SENIOR EDU FNDN
$10,000COMMUNITY SERVICES
DETROIT CHESED
$10,000COMMUNITY SERVICES