· Private foundation
Fromstein Foundation Ltd
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Fromstein Foundation Ltd’s FY2020 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Fromstein Foundation Ltd named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $24k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS | $1,500 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,500 |
| B'NAI VAIL CONGREGATION | $1,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| THE BRIDGE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON (EVAN ROY WITTY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP) | $500 |
| WRITERS THEATRE | $250 |
| BETWEEN FRIENDS | $250 |
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 (FY19–19, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 91% of Fromstein Foundation Ltd’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.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +13%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +53%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +51%- ANA NIGHT OUTone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Serving and supporting a vibrant, enduring jewish community.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds BETWEEN FRIENDS ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fromstein Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fromstein Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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