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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 20-2094448

Keren Simcha Foundation

A private foundation in Lakewood, NJ. Its return for tax year 2025 reports $130,801 paid in grants, listed in an attachment that is not in the e-file.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Shalom Bauman
938 Woodland Drive
Lakewood, NJ 08701
(732) 364-4458
Form and materials
Application is requested in writing and should include details as to the charitable, religious or educational purposes for which the grant funds will be used.
Deadlines
None, as grants are awarded on an ongoing basis.
Restrictions
None.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $130,801

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $25,367
  • Tax year 2024

    $62,074

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $20,948
  • Tax year 2023

    $77,112

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $57,522
  • Tax year 2022

    $23,046

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $58,584
  • Tax year 2021

    $24,790

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $28,941
  • Tax year 2020

    $44,884

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $48,906
  • Tax year 2019

    $65,950

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $92,717
  • Tax year 2018

    $38,563

    Grants listed
    In an attachment
    Assets, end of year
    $156,480

Grants paid in 2025

Grants listed in an attachment (not in the e-file)

As listed on the return.

  1. This return lists its grants in an attachment that is not in the IRS e-file: $130,801 in all.

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Shalom BaumanTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Henna BaumanTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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