· Private foundation
Ivan Ciment 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE | $24,840 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $15,000 |
| JEWISH CENTER SYNAGOGUE | $8,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,825 |
| JGIVE FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT | $1,740 |
| CHABAD AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| WASHUHILEL | $1,000 |
| BAYIT LEPLEITOT | $750 |
| LEKET ISRAEL | $750 |
| ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE | $500 |
| YESHIVAT MAHARAT | $360 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| AMIT CHILDREN | $240 |
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 (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +135% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +0%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +294%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CACONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- LJLEO JUNG MEMORIAL FUND MIAMI FUNDone grant, 2020 · $1k
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 weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To further jewish education in 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…
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):
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 44 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 WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP YAVNEH INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT MAHARAT INC ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds The Pad Project ↗
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 Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation · Kolatch Family Foundation · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ivan Ciment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ivan Ciment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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