· Private foundation
Emil & Gail Kestenbaum 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMEK HEBREW ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CHABAD PRINCETON | $10,000 |
| CURTIS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI INC | $3,600 |
| CHABAD OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS | $3,600 |
| CHABAD OF MID-HUDSON VALLEY | $3,160 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| YINBH | $1,360 |
| CHARIDY CHABAD OF NASHVILLE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CHABAD OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SHARE ZEDEK VALLEY SHUL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES3× · 2017–2023 · $143k
- COCHABAD OF THE VALLEY INC4× · 2017–2024 · $100k
- COCHABAD OF BEVERLY HILLS5× · 2019–2023 · $62k
Funded once
- HHHILLEL HEBREW ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $53k
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +91%
- CFCHESED FUND- SHAAREY ZEDEKone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 49 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Goldberger Family Foundation · The Alon and Rosana Miller Foundation · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · The Rav-Noy Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Emil & Gail Kestenbaum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emil & Gail Kestenbaum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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