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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.

$286k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$57,050
Organizations funded a year
11 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22’23
EducationReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$286k35%
FY202324$294k17%
FY202214$283k29%
FY202011$138k18%
FY201927$358k37%
FY201825$296k48%
FY201726$329kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MHuman Services$303kPhilanthropy$245kEducation$149kEmployment$84kHealth$36kInternational$32kCivil Rights$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
AZ
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$242,00060%
Sephardic Community Youth Center Inc$168,00021%
Moise Safra Community Center Inc$94,00130%
Propel Network Inc$83,27557%
Cong Magen David of West Deal$64,0004n/a
Ramaz School$50,5004n/a
Shaare Ezra Congregation Inc$47,3803n/a
Magen David Yeshivah$45,0002n/a
Sbh Community Service Network Inc$40,50040%
Shefa School$36,90050%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$242,00060%
Sephardic Community Youth Center Inc$168,00021%
Moise Safra Community Center Inc$94,00130%
Propel Network Inc$83,27557%
Cong Magen David of West Deal$64,0004n/a
Ramaz School$50,5004n/a
Shaare Ezra Congregation Inc$47,3803n/a
Magen David Yeshivah$45,0002n/a
Sbh Community Service Network Inc$40,50040%
Shefa School$36,90050%
Yeshivat Shaare Torah Inc$31,50040%
Sephardic Community Alliance$23,50031%
Beit Yaacov Inc$18,1702n/a
Logan Community Fh Inc$12,50011%
Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC$10,20020%
Ilan High School$9,60040%
Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc$5,20010%
Chabad Torah Center$4,101212%
National Council of Young Israel$3,6001n/a
Simha Organization Inc$2,60010%
Sephardic Mikvah Israel Inc$1,80010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$1,80010%
The Bridge Academy Inc$1,80010%
Congregation Edmond J Safra$1,6641n/a
National Jewish Health$1,50010%
Hatzalah South Florida Emergency Medcial Services Inc$1,30011%
Congregation Beit Edmond$1,0501n/a
Widow and Hesed Fund$1,0021n/a
Shaare Tefilah Ben Moshe Inc$1,0011n/a
Echo National Institute for Health$1,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$1,00010%
Mdrc$1,00010%
The Sephardic Food Fund Inc$1,00010%
Intercollegiate Tennis Association Inc$1,00010%
Edmond J Safra Synagogue of Deal Nj$5011n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($973k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $242,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSephardic Community Youth Center Inc: $168,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMoise Safra Community Center Inc: $94,001 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPropel Network Inc: $83,275 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetSbh Community Service Network Inc: $40,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShefa School: $36,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYeshivat Shaare Torah Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSephardic Community Alliance: $23,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLogan Community Fh Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $10,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIlan High School: $9,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMonmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc: $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChabad Torah Center: $4,101 over 2y, 12% of budgetSimha Organization Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSephardic Mikvah Israel Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Academy Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHatzalah South Florida Emergency Medcial Services Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEcho National Institute for Health: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMdrc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sephardic Food Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntercollegiate Tennis Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY40.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle

How much does Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle give?
Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle reported 17 grants totaling $286,302 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($242k), Sephardic Community Youth Center Inc ($168k), Moise Safra Community Center Inc ($94k).
Does Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation.
Where is Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle based?
Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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