· Private foundation
Benjamin & Lorelei Hammerman Foundation Ltd
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $38,500 |
| John Hopkin Foundation | $20,000 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF SCARSDALE | $3,204 |
| JNF | $2,500 |
| UJA | $2,500 |
| 5TH AVE SYNOGOUGE | $2,420 |
| WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL | $1,800 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTH UTAH | $1,500 |
| CAMERA | $1,000 |
| AIPAC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO | $500 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $275 |
| Individual grant recipient | $180 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $110 |
| New York Public Library | $100 |
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES4× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +53%- CFCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +85%
- LHLENOX HILL BIKUR CHOLIM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +377%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $15k
- MSMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -68%
- SOSchool of Public Health at Yaleone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 144 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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL BIKUR CHOLIM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
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 · Fjc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Spodek Family Foundation · Morris & Anna Propp Sons Fund Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benjamin & Lorelei Hammerman Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin & Lorelei Hammerman Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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