· Private foundation
Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $157,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS HEBREW UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| GERMANTOWN JEWISH CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC- PLEDGE PAYMENT | $17,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| PHILLIES CHARITIES - THE ALS ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| MASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,700 |
| CHABAD OF THE MAINLINE | $2,500 |
| KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $2,500 |
| MEOR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| HILLEL OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,200 |
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 (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 13% of Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation’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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JMJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY2× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +70%
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +52%- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2018–2023 · $87k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ATA T Still University of Health Sciencesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +29%
- BLBE'CHOL LASHON - FINAL YR PLEDGE PAYMENTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY - FINAL YR PLEDGE PAYMENTone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
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…
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 83 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL D COZEN MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Institute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon ↗
- Who funds MEOR INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIES CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds A T Still University of Health Sciences ↗
- Who funds KIDS SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
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: Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Snider Foundation · Georgejack & Joan Shuster Foundation Inc C/O Gail Norry · The Kestenbaum Family Foundation · Rittenhouse Foundation · The Specter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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