New Jersey · Private foundation
Abrams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $264k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Abrams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $234k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $196k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $192k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $157k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $139k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $155k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $163k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $161k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abrams Hebrew Academy | $378,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged | $66,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans Inc | $40,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $38,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Brothers of Israel | $34,075 | 8 | n/a |
| American Jewish Committee | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abrams Hebrew Academy | $378,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged | $66,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans Inc | $40,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $38,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Brothers of Israel | $34,075 | 8 | n/a |
| American Jewish Committee | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $11,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ny Community Fridge Corp | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Homefront Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Rutgers Hillel Corporation | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Sunshine Foundation | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kidsbridge Inc | $2,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Larchmont Temple Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Womanspace Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Beth-El Synogogue | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adath Israel Congregation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Parkinson Alliance Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($769k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abrams Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Anne and Gerald Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · American Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Abrams Foundation
- How much does Abrams Foundation give?
- Abrams Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $264,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Abrams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), International (19%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Abrams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Abrams Hebrew Academy ($378k), Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged ($66k), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Abrams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abrams Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abrams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Anne and Gerald Freedman Charitable Foundation Inc, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc.
- Where is Abrams Foundation based?
- Abrams Foundation is based in NJ.
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