When you sponsor a child at Bayit Lepleitot, you are not funding a program - you are joining a household. Your monthly gift goes to a specific child, and we send you their quarterly news. Once a year, an anonymous hand-written letter from them.
“The first time someone asked me what I wanted for breakfast, I cried for an hour.”
- Yael, age 16
Sponsorship is not a one-way donation. It is a small relationship - anonymous, mediated, and steady - between your family and a child who needs one more steady adult on their side.
Browse our extended profiles. Pick a child whose story moves you - or let us pair you with the child whose need most matches your gift.
From $36 to $360 a month, designated to your child's program. Set up takes ninety seconds. Cancel anytime; we will never make you feel guilty.
Four times a year you receive a confidential update - a photo (if permitted), a paragraph from their mentor, and a note about what your gift funded that quarter.
Once a year, around their Hebrew birthday, an anonymous hand-written letter from the child themselves. We have parents who keep ten years of these in a single box.
The relationship is anonymous on both sides. The child does not know your name; you do not learn theirs. We mediate every word, every photo, every letter. This is what keeps the relationship safe - and what keeps it real.
Each child below is real - names are anonymized, photos are not shown. Use the filter to find a child in a specific program. Available, sponsored, and waitlist are all shown so you can see the full picture.
10 children across all programs
7-9 · Nivcheret
Tehilla arrived two years ago after losing both parents in a car accident. She is now in second grade, reading at grade level for the first time, and recently won a class art contest. Her mentor reports she 'talks now' - a year ago she did not.
Suggested support
$72/mo
16-18 · Bayit Lepleitot
Yael came to Bayit Lepleitot at twelve, after years of moving between relatives. She is now in eleventh grade and tutors three younger girls in math twice a week. She plans to study graphic design at seminary and has already designed the cover for our 2026 yearbook.
Suggested support
$180/mo
13-15 · Bishvilech
Devorah joined Bishvilech a year and a half ago after her parents separated. She comes every afternoon and Shabbatonim, and the mentor she calls when 'things are loud at home' is named Chana. She has the longest braid in the program and the loudest laugh.
Suggested support
$72/mo
19-22 · Bayit Lepleitot
Esther has been at Bayit Lepleitot since she was twelve, the longest of any current resident. She graduated seminary in June and is now teaching first grade in Beit Shemesh while living in our young-adult apartment. She comes home every Friday with challah she baked herself.
Suggested support
$180/mo
10-12 · Nivcheret
Miriam arrived at seven and is now in fifth grade, on the school chess team for the second year. She lost her mother to cancer and her father can no longer care for her. She visits him every other Shabbat and tells him about her week, in order.
Suggested support
$72/mo
8-10 · Beyachad
Shimon started Beyachad a year and a half ago, after his parents divorced and the back-and-forth became too much. He arrives every afternoon at 3:45 and his favorite mentor, Yossi, is the only person he lets cut his hair. He is the youngest goalie on the program soccer team and his save record is, in his words, 'pretty serious.'
Suggested support
$36/mo
13-15 · Bayit Lepleitot
Avigail came to us at twelve, after spending two years in foster care that didn't hold. She has been in our drama therapy group every week since, and she wrote the Purim play we performed this year. She is, by unanimous staff vote, the kindest girl in the eighth grade.
Suggested support
$180/mo
7-9 · Nivcheret
Rivka arrived at Nivcheret just five months ago, the youngest girl on her floor. Her mother died last year and her grandmother can no longer manage her care. She is learning to read in Hebrew and English and she has named every stuffed animal on her bed after a flower.
Suggested support
$180/mo
16-18 · Bayit Lepleitot
Naomi joined Bayit Lepleitot at thirteen and is now in twelfth grade, planning seminary. She is the captain of the upper-school chesed committee and runs the Friday flower delivery to elderly women in our neighborhood. We have a waitlist of seven sponsors who hope to support her - she has chosen to be paired thoughtfully.
Suggested support
$180/mo
10-12 · Beyachad
Eitan joined Beyachad after his parents separated and his older brother moved abroad. He is in fifth grade and one of the strongest readers in our after-school program, devouring two books a week. His mentor reports he 'has not missed a Tuesday chavruta in fourteen months.'
Suggested support
$72/mo
A sponsorship is a relationship, not a transaction. The calculator below shows what a multi-year commitment looks like - because the children we serve need adults who will still be there in year three, year five, year ten.
The most common sponsorship lasts seven years. The longest in our records: thirty-one years, three generations of the same Boca Raton family supporting the same girl, and then her daughter at Nivcheret.
For the child you sponsor, this is years of meals, mentor calls, school tutoring, birthday cakes, winter coats - the steady weight of a household that does not forget them.
Some families, foundations, and shuls choose to sponsor a full class, a full floor, or an entire program for a year. This is the deepest commitment we know - and it can transform a single year of a program.
Bulk sponsorships are structured as multi-year pledges. Our development team will sit with you, walk through the program budget line by line, and tailor the commitment to your foundation, family fund, or shul.