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Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc

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.

$288k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
49
Grants FY2025
45
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$62,500
Organizations funded a year
39 to 52
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$84k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving49$288k12%
FY202445$316k11%
FY202344$442k2%
FY202252$506k27%
FY202139$405k15%
FY202039$650k15%
FY201943$590kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$961kReligion$951kEducation$587kHealth$250kInternational$119kArts & Culture$74kCivil Rights$43kCrime & Legal$24kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Momentum Unlimited Inc$185,00060%
Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy$103,80470%
Ezer Mizion$80,00051%
Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc$70,00070%
Friends of Cancer Research$55,00070%
National Jewish Policy Center$52,50071%
American Friends of Lubavitch$52,00071%
Chabad Shul of Potomac$45,0007n/a
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$36,00010%
Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc$35,00050%
Show all 44 grantees
All grantees of Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Momentum Unlimited Inc$185,00060%
Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy$103,80470%
Ezer Mizion$80,00051%
Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc$70,00070%
Friends of Cancer Research$55,00070%
National Jewish Policy Center$52,50071%
American Friends of Lubavitch$52,00071%
Chabad Shul of Potomac$45,0007n/a
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$36,00010%
Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc$35,00050%
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Fund$22,50060%
Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc$17,50070%
Sulam Inc$14,00070%
Jewish Social Service Agency$7,00070%
Alef Bet Montessori School$7,00070%
Endowment for Middle East Truth$7,00070%
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation$5,90360%
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale$5,7262n/a
Worldwide Friends Foundation$5,00010%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$5,00010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$5,00010%
Vaad Leorer Yeshainim Migdal Or$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$4,00040%
Sunflower Bakery Inc$3,50070%
Prager University Foundation$3,25060%
Imadi Inc$3,02540%
Young Israel of North Beverly Hills$2,5001n/a
Larger Than Life USA Inc$2,50030%
Shabbot Shalom Fax of Life Inc$2,26050%
Jems Academy Inc$2,0002n/a
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc$2,00030%
In Shifras Arms Inc$2,00020%
Youth Art for Healing Inc$2,00040%
Emunah of America Inc$1,00010%
Sharsheret Inc$1,0001n/a
Kol Hanearim Inc$1,0001n/a
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington$1,00010%
Jewish Women International$1,00010%
The Manhattan Childrens Center$1,00020%
Association for Safe International Road Travel Inc$1,00020%
Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc$50020%
Aish Hatorah$2501n/a
Rockville Volunteer Fire Department$20020%
Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman$18010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMomentum Unlimited Inc: $185,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMelvin J Berman Hebrew Academy: $103,804 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEzer Mizion: $80,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSuburban Hospital Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNational Jewish Policy Center: $52,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Lubavitch: $52,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGift of Life Marrow Registry Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Fund: $22,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSulam Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Social Service Agency: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlef Bet Montessori School: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEndowment for Middle East Truth: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $5,903 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSunflower Bakery Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetImadi Inc: $3,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLarger Than Life USA Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetShabbot Shalom Fax of Life Inc: $2,260 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSave a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIn Shifras Arms Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Art for Healing Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEmunah of America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBender Jcc of Greater Washington: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Women International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Manhattan Childrens Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for Safe International Road Travel Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRockville Volunteer Fire Department: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $180 over 1y, 0.1% 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 36.

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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.

Mayberg Foundation IncMD30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation · Bender Foundation Inc · The Falic Family Private Foundation · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family 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 Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc

How much does Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc give?
Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc reported 49 grants totaling $287,994 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 52 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Religion (30%), Education (18%).
Who are Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Momentum Unlimited Inc ($185k), Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy ($104k), Ezer Mizion ($80k).
Does Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc 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 Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mayberg Foundation Inc, The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc.
Where is Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc based?
Diana and Michael David Epstein Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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