· 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 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 · 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 |
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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 +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
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
How this is measured
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
- COCHABAD OF THE SHOREone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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