· Private foundation
Atran Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $622k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH | $245,000 |
| WORKMEN'S CIRCLEARBETER INC | $150,000 |
| THE FORWARD ASSOCIATION | $120,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $70,000 |
| THE NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE - FOLKSBIENE | $60,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $50,000 |
| JEWISH LABOR COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC & DANCE INC | $30,000 |
| ETHIOPIAN EDUCATION GROUP | $27,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $25,000 |
| PROJECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $25,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT NYU SCHOOL OF LAW | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $25,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +13% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +58%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +51%- YIYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +217%
Funded once
- TJTHE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PRPEACE RIVER PRESBYTERY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AAARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INCone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue -30%
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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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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
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.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 81 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 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 WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YIDDISH REPERTORY THEATERINC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ethiopian Jews Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL YIDDISH CULTURE ORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Road Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN MOTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Ciesla Foundation ↗
- Who funds In Geveb Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK JEWISH AGENDA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION A NJ NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Atran Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atran Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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