How much does Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation give?

Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $1,228,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Social Science (55%), Civil Rights (13%), Health (10%).

Who are Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Jewish Committee ($710k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($514k), Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ($190k).

Does Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation 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 Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, AbbVie Foundation.

Where is Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation based?

Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation is based in IL.

Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation

Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$501k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Social Science$3.0MCivil Rights$717kHealth$546kPhilanthropy$308kArts & Culture$295kInternational$260kHuman Services$210kEducation$97kOther$0

02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k48 grants · $50k
$10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$50k–250k2 grants · $103k
$250k+2 grants · $1.0M

$750

Median grant

States reached

$31M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WTTW	$10,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.3M · 73 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+43%

Still filing today

64%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
6× · 2020–2025 · $710k · revenue +68%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
4× · 2021–2025 · $514k · revenue +62%
CC
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +114%

Funded once

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KRAVIS
one grant, 2021 · $13k
JM
JACK MILLER CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $10k
ME
MIDDLE EAST FORUM
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +12%

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.

04Its field

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.

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

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.

Civil Rights

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 104 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/66

Grantees still filing

48/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,302,958Civil Rights$715,100Health$522,900Philanthropy$311,380Arts & Culture$281,575International$260,300Human Services$188,400

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.

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.

Circle of Service FoundationIL23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald M Ephraim Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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