· Private foundation
Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation
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 $10k39 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH | $100,000 |
| HEBREW BENEVOLENT CONGREGATION THE TEMPLE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WILLIAM BREMEN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE LTD | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH JACOB AND IRVING LEVIN JEWISH CE | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITHFAMILY COM INC | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN DANCE MACHINE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDA | $7,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I | $5,000 |
| MINERALS METALS & MATERIALS SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC | $5,000 |
| MIT ALUMNI FUND | $4,000 |
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
92 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 INC8× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +39%
FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC6× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +8%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF OF OFANIMone grant, 2019 · $30k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH JACOBone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 138 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 FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Usher 1F Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds REBECCA'S TENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINERALS METALS & MATERIALS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NERANENAH INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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 Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Selig Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles & Esther Lee Kimerling Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
- High Desert Food & Farm Alliance: 45% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Collage Inc: 7% of income from government
- Lasell University: 4% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital: 3% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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