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Jerome and Sonya Hollander Family Foundation at a glance

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Jerome and Sonya Hollander Family 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.

$25k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Religion$151kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$9kInternational$3kArts & Culture$2kCivil Rights$2kEducation$2k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$25,000
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 (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YIDDISH BOOK CENTER: $1k → 12%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $1k → 14%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $1k → 17%FAIR LABOR ASSOCIATION: $180 → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $50 → 18%MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $50 → 6%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%YIDDISH BOOK CENTER: $1k → 12%AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH: $200 → 17%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $1k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $25k → 14%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $100 → 14%LA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%USC NORRIS CANCER CENTER: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF SHEBA TEL HASHOMER: $1k → 14%HILLEL 818: $500 → 14%CEDARS SINAI: $150 → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 3 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
21

Total granted

$155k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22
HealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • VB
    VALLEY BETH SHALOM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k
  • AP
    AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +82%
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • LB
    LA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • American Diabetes Association
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -4%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SHEBA TEL HASHOMER
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
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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3
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
4
American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights
5
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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6
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
7
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
8
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
9
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
10
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
12
Sherit Isroel
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

18 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. 18 of the 25 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)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY BETH SHALOM: $150,000 · OtherVALLEY BETH SHALOM+9 more: $6,650 · OtherPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $25,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOO…AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSO…+4 more: $2,350 · Health+4 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalFair Labor Association: $180 · InternationalNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $2,360 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50 · Crime & Legal
Other$156,650Health$30,350International$3,180Arts & Culture$2,460Education$1,000Civil Rights$1,000Crime & Legal$50

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $2,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFair Labor Association: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerome and Sonya Hollander Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome and Sonya Hollander Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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