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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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$63M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$361kHealth$293kInternational$79kScience & Tech$67kPhilanthropy$30kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $94,358, the rows itemized in this filing. The $63,350,651 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,256,293 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$32,626
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$44,025
HADASSAH WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$32,626
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE$17,707
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $45k → 16%SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $10k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE: $18k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $43k → 16%Hadassah HWZOA: $25k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE: $18k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $40k → 16%The Jewish Federation: $10k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE: $18k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $38k → 16%The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles: $10k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE: $17k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $37k → 16%The Jewish Federation: $10k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE: $16k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $35k → 16%American Society for Technion Israel Institute: $15k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $35k → 16%American Technion Society: $15k → 17%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $45k → 16%American Technion Society: $14k → 17%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $44k → 16%American Technion Society: $14k → 17%Hadassah medical organization: $27k → 17%Hadassah medical organization: $26k → 17%Hadassah medical organization: $26k → 17%HADASSAH WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $33k → 17%HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $33k → 17%HADASSAH WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $33k → 17%HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $32k → 17%HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $29k → 17%Hadassah Medical Relief Association: $28k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $63M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$63M · 100% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: GENERAL · RESEARCH IN EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY BY THE MEDICAL FACULTY AND FOR LECTURESHIP · GENERAL PURPOSES OF SCHOOL

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of American Friends of Hebrew University Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 27%.

American Friends of Hebrew University Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$629k · 5 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$629k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CK
    CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR
    7× · 2017–2023 · $273k
  • HM
    HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $123k · revenue -57%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $89k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SC
    SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
05the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR: $272,543 · OtherCONGREGATION KOL SHOFARTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $88,868 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $145,450 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE…HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $122,719 · InternationalHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INCJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $79,257 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INCHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $65,858 · Community ImprovementJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · PhilanthropySKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$386,411International$347,426Community Improvement$65,858Philanthropy$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $145,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $122,719 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $88,868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $79,257 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $65,858 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Friends of Hebrew University Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Friends of Hebrew University Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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