· Private foundation
Atran Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH | $130,000 |
| THE FORWARD ASSOCIATION | $120,000 |
| WORKMEN'S CIRCLEARBETER INC | $120,000 |
| THE NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE - FOLKSBIENE | $60,000 |
| JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $40,000 |
| WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC & DANCE INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $25,000 |
| T'RUAH | $25,000 |
| OFFICE OF CONCERN FOOD PANTRY AT ST CECILIA'S | $25,000 |
| THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| TEACH | $18,000 |
| NEW YIDDISH REPERTORY THEATER | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +58%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +51%- YIYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +217%
Funded once
- TJTHE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PRPEACE RIVER PRESBYTERY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AAARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Di Goldene Keyt the Golden Chain Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc ↗
- Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ethiopian Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL YIDDISH CULTURE ORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YIDDISH REPERTORY THEATERINC ↗
- Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Road Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION A NJ NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds In Geveb Inc ↗
- Who funds PARENT HEART WATCH ↗
- Who funds A CLOSER LOOK INC ↗
- Who funds US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Lucius N Littauer Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Atran Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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