· Private foundation
Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of BRAKA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ATTN MICHELE NEEDLE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE (FL) | $57,050 |
| SHAARE EZRA CONGREGATION | $42,701 |
| UJA- FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $36,000 |
| HILLEL YESHIVA | $36,000 |
| RAMAZ SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| MOISE SAFRA CENTER | $19,001 |
| LOGAN COMMUNITY FH | $12,500 |
| SEPHARDIC ADDICTION FAMILY EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION MEGAN DAVID OF WEST DEAL | $6,500 |
| EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE (NY) | $5,200 |
| SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $4,500 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK | $3,600 |
| ILAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,600 |
| SIMHA ORGANIZATION | $2,600 |
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 (FY17–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $242k · revenue +39%
- SCSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +82%
- SSSHEFA SCHOOL5× · 2018–2023 · $37k · revenue +269%
Funded once
- MMSCCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- COCONG OHEL YISHAK OF ALLENHURSTone grant, 2022 · $13k
- EJEDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 sec is dedicated to strengthening jewish indentiy for youth and young adults, and to building a new generation of spiritual and community leaders. from our historic campus in the old city of jerusalem to our various diaspora branches,…
Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution
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…
To promote, encourage, foster and advance the teaching and study of the sephardic jewish religion.
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shefa School and the most unlike its peers is Widow and Hesed Fund. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 65 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROPEL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOGAN COMMUNITY FH INC ↗
- Who funds Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC ↗
- Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION 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: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Celebrity Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Ralph J Harary Foundation 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 Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.