· Private foundation
Donald M Ephraim Family 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of DONALD M EPHRAIM FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $501,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $52,000 |
| MORSELIFE FOUNDATION | $50,500 |
| COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA (CAMERA) | $25,000 |
| CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY | $20,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| WTTW | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE CMW CHAPTER OF NATAS INC | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STANDWITHUS | $3,500 |
| 112 EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE ARK | $2,300 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
73 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE6× · 2020–2025 · $710k · revenue +68%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $514k · revenue +44%- CCCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- KKRAVISone grant, 2021 · $13k
- JMJACK MILLER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MEMIDDLE EAST FORUMone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
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Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE CMW CHAPTER OF NATAS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds 112 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THYCA THYROID CANCER SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS RANK ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Highland Park Community Foundation · Maury and Nancy Fertig Family Foundation · Leva Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Hochberg Family Foundation · Vivo Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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