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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE (FL)$57,050
SHAARE EZRA CONGREGATION$42,701
HILLEL YESHIVA$36,000
UJA- FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $11k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $10k → 20%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $50k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $25k → 17%MOISE SAFRA CENTER: $19k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
AZ
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 34 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
24

Total granted

$1.8M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+49%

Still filing today

32%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationReligionHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $242k · revenue +39%
  • SC
    SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +82%
  • SS
    SHEFA SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $37k · revenue +269%

Funded once

  • M
    MSCC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CO
    CONG OHEL YISHAK OF ALLENHURST
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF THE SHORE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
International Sephardic Educational & Cultural Center in Jerusalem

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,…

Religion
3
Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates

Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution

Religion
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
5
Sephardic Foundation for Torah Studies Inc

To promote, encourage, foster and advance the teaching and study of the sephardic jewish religion.

Education
6
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
The Shalem Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

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…

Education
11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
Torah Ore Seminary

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shefa School; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLEL YESHIVA: $228,600 · OtherHILLEL YESHIVAEDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE (FL): $135,630 · OtherEDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE (FL)DSN: $100,000 · OtherDSNIndividual grant recipient: $87,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $73,574 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONG MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEAL: $64,000 · OtherSHEARIM: $60,000 · OtherRAMAZ SCHOOL: $50,500 · OtherMSCC: $50,000 · OtherSHAARE EZRA CONGREGATION INC: $47,380 · OtherMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH: $45,000 · Other+38 more: $282,131 · Other+38 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $242,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH A…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDO…+1 more: $1,002 · PhilanthropySEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $168,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEPHARDIC…MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $94,001 · Human ServicesSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $40,500 · Human ServicesPROPEL NETWORK INC: $83,275 · Employment+1 more: $1,000 · EmploymentSHEFA SCHOOL: $36,900 · EducationYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $31,500 · EducationILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $9,600 · Education+1 more: $1,800 · EducationSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $23,500 · ReligionLOGAN COMMUNITY FH INC: $12,500 · ReligionShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $10,200 · ReligionChabad Torah Center: $4,101 · Religion
Other$1,224,065Philanthropy$273,002Youth Development$168,000Human Services$134,501Employment$84,275Education$79,800Religion$50,301

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Braka Philanthropic Foundation Attn Michele Needle. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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