· Private foundation
Astor Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Astor Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Astor Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISRAEL TENNIS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PALO ALTO | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| JEWISH CHAPLAINCY | $1,800 |
| BRADLEY SONNENBERG FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ADVOT PROJECT | $1,000 |
| AKIM-JERUSALEM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OUR HOUSE | $1,000 |
| CLUB Z | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COALITION FOR LITERACY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 87% of Astor Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +247% since the first grant, against +122% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PALO ALTO2× · 2020–2021 · $6k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue -5%
- OHOUR HOUSE2× · 2020–2021 · $2k
Funded once
- ITISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +80%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- PEPEF ENDOWMENT GOLDSTEIN VILLAGEone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ADVOT ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Rimon Club Z DBA Club Z ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Astor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Astor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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