· Private foundation
Donner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tomchai Shabbos of Lakewood | $1,420 |
| RCCS | $450 |
| Bais Tova Girls School | $200 |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | $180 |
| Bais Medrash of Elmwood | $100 |
| Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim | $100 |
| New York Bota Sefer | $100 |
| Refua Fund | $100 |
| Rivka Laufer Bikur Cholim | $100 |
| Bnos Yisroel School for Girls | $50 |
| Hatzolah | $50 |
| Bais Yaakov High School of Lakewood | $50 |
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 (FY17–17, $175) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE4× · 2017–2023 · $400 · revenue +135%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR2× · 2019–2022 · $280 · revenue +34%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER4× · 2017–2022 · $200 · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NYNew York Bais Selerone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $550
- LBLev Berl Fundone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious School
Religious Teaching
Provide a building for a religious school.
To conduct and maintain a religious school in accordance with the tenets, traditions and precepts of the orthodox jewish faith.
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
The organization operates a religious/parochial high school and college in lakewood, nj.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 116 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.
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 Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Donors Fund Inc · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Toras Chesed Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Lench Charity Trust · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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