New York · Public charity
Covenant Foundation
To build on existing strength within the field of jewish education in north america, by addressing all forms of pre-collegiate and adult jewish education through awards to individuals and grants to institutions for creative programs.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Covenant Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $920k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $2.6M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.8M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.3M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $2.1M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $2.0M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.6M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $1.4M | 74% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved Builders Inc | $425,800 | 4 | 8% |
| Moving Traditions | $392,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $361,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Moed Incorporated | $355,000 | 4 | 29% |
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $333,693 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | $316,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Institute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon | $280,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation | $279,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Svivah Inc | $237,000 | 5 | 44% |
| The Jewish Women's Archive Inc | $232,000 | 4 | 20% |
Show all 147 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Covenant Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Upstart Bay Area · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
How this is measured
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About Covenant Foundation
- How much does Covenant Foundation give?
- Covenant Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $2,895,000, out of $3,338,630 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Covenant Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Covenant Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beloved Builders Inc ($426k), Moving Traditions ($392k), Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life ($362k).
- Does Covenant Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Covenant Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation, United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc, Upstart Bay Area.
- Where is Covenant Foundation based?
- Covenant Foundation is based in NY.
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