· Private foundation
Jay E & Wendy G Birnbaum 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 · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| PINE BROOK JEWISH CENTER | $8,219 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $8,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $5,420 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $4,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ADL (ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE) | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $1,800 |
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 (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +10%
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +135%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CCCHABAD CENTER OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SCSQ CHADBAD OF MONTVILLEone grant, 2021 · $2k
- GAGRACIES ARMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $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.
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 university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…
The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds GRACIES ARMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE BEST IS YET TO BE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jay E & Wendy G Birnbaum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay E & Wendy G Birnbaum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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