· Private foundation
Eric and Sheila Samson 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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $479k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TARBUT VTORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| USC FOR UNIVERSITY GIFT ADVANCEMENT | $308,000 |
| TOGETHER WITH ISRAEL | $250,000 |
| CHABAD OF NORTH IRVINE | $136,764 |
| CONGREGATION OF ADAT YESHRUN | $90,851 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF IRVINE | $72,000 |
| CHABAD STUDENT CENTER | $72,000 |
| WOW INC | $57,800 |
| H F EPSTEIN HEBREW ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| CHABAD OF IRVINE | $41,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,600 |
| PLAZA SYNAGOGUE DBA YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS | $36,000 |
| IRVINE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $36,000 |
| CONG AGUDAS ACHIM JEWISH BURIAL | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,539 |
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 (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Eric and Sheila Samson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +8%
- TITOGETHERWITHISRAEL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +160%
- COCONGREGATION OF ADAT YESHRUN3× · 2023–2025 · $716k
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- HHHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +40%
- CFCentral Fund of Israelgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +31%
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.
To further jewish education in israel
Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.
To provide medical support to families in need
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.
To pursue a greater outreach of knowledge of the Jewish Torah and to further educate the less knowledgeable
American Friends of IDFWO is dedicated to providing financial, emotional, and social support to the families of Israeli soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in service. We aim to honor their legacy and help rebuild the lives of widows…
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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.
- Who funds TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOGETHERWITHISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MISHTERET YISRAEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAIYANU ↗
- Who funds IRVINE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OVERWATCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Orange County Friendship Circle Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INSPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MISHPACHA ORPHANAGE ODESSA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP ↗
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 Federation of Orange County · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Jewish Communal Fund · Samueli Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eric and Sheila Samson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eric and Sheila Samson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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