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Greenstein Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$180k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.4MArts & Culture$255kInternational$230kCivil Rights$154kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$25kReligion$25kEducation$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$100,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$50,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$25,000
WOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY$5,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY: $10k → 7%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $25k → 17%The Who We Are Project: $50k → 9%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $75k → 9%The Who We Are Project: $50k → 9%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $50k → 9%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $25k → 9%FIND VENTURES: $50k → 9%STAND WITH US NORTHWEST: $10k → 9%BROTHERS FOR LIFE: $100k → 9%STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $487k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $297k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $285k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $250k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $250k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $200k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $175k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $105k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $75k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $75k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $75k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $60k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $50k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $50k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $50k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $44k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $37k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $25k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $20k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $18k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $18k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 7 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$3.9M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+5%

Still filing today

86%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    3× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +212%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +111%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Israel Defense Force
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +53%
  • FV
    FIND VENTURES CO
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -100%
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.

1
The Jerusalem Connection
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2
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
3
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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4
Sherit Isroel
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5
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
6
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
7
Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington

The mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.

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8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
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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10
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
11
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brothers for Life; the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle of Washington. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $3,430,400 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBrothers for Life: $225,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Israel Defense Force: $100,000 · OtherSTROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · OtherWOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY INC: $20,000 · Other+10 more: $27,375 · OtherTHE WHO WE ARE PROJECT: $100,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $45,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $25,000 · InternationalFIND VENTURES CO: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON: $6,800 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$3,435,400Arts & Culture$250,000Other$172,375Civil Rights$145,000International$125,000Community Improvement$50,000Education$11,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $3,430,400 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBrothers for Life: $225,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIND VENTURES CO: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON: $6,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONETABLE INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds THE WHO WE ARE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FIND VENTURES CO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗

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.

Levitan Family FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Levitan Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Seattle Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Greenstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greenstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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