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Lee and Anne Samson Charitable 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.

$487k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of LEE AND ANNE SAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $395k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$731
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
YULA HIGH SCHOOL$125,000
THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION$60,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$60,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC$30,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS$29,600
FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI INC$13,700
KIRYAT SHEMONA FOUNDATION$10,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$2,045
OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES$1,800
THE WESTSIDE SHUL$1,500
CHABAD TERROR VICTIMS PROJECT INC$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC$1,000
BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS FUND$1,000
CHABAD OF SUNSET STRIP$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $1k → 16%PROJECT LEGACY: $5k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $10k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 39 repeat orgs$662k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
43

Total granted

$3.4M
$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+4%

Still filing today

64%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $425k · revenue +102%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $211k · revenue +50%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARIEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • IG
    ISRAEL GLOBAL INITIATIVE FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -40%
  • SM
    SWC MUSEUM CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +93%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
—
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
6
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
12
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Resolve Uganda Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Education and Religi…Public Safety & Community S…Community Health SystemsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%8%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%29%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/67
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,911

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS — $418,112 · OtherYOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLSYULA BOYS SCHOOL — $360,000 · OtherYULA BOYS SCHOOLNCSY — $303,600 · OtherNCSYNCSY — $210,000 · OtherNCSYAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC — $202,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INCTHE ARIEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherTHE ARIEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+41 more — $247,300 · Other+41 moreSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $425,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL C…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHA…SWC MUSEUM CORP — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSWC MUSEUM CORPFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureYULA HIGH SCHOOL — $293,600 · EducationYULA HIGH SCHOO…ARIEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationARIEL UNIVERSIT…YESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $105,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERS…YESHIVA ARZEI LEVANON — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $211,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMM…ISRAEL GLOBAL INITIATIVE FUND INC — $50,000 · InternationalISRAEL GLOBAL…NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $45,000 · InternationalNATIONAL JEWI…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $40,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TH…ONE FAMILY FUND — $35,000 · InternationalONE FAMILY FU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…Central Fund of Israel — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $16,667 · International+7 more — $43,300 · International+7 moreTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION — $280,360 · ReligionTHE TORAH …KIRYAT SHEMONA FOUNDATION INC — $83,000 · ReligionKIRYAT SHE…WEST COAST TORAH RETREAT AND CAMP CENTER — $18,000 · Religion+4 more — $11,430 · ReligionCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $19,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC — $16,140 · HealthBIKUR CHOLIM — $3,600 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,800 · Health+2 more — $1,040 · HealthPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION — $9,999 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO INC — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,941,012Arts & Culture$657,000Education$569,100International$490,967Religion$392,790Health$41,580Philanthropy$22,499

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $425,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYULA HIGH SCHOOL — $293,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION — $280,360 over 5y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $211,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC — $202,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIRYAT SHEMONA FOUNDATION INC — $83,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetISRAEL GLOBAL INITIATIVE FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSWC MUSEUM CORP — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA ARZEI LEVANON — $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COAST TORAH RETREAT AND CAMP CENTER — $18,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $16,140 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI — $13,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH — $11,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP — $11,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION — $9,999 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChabad Terror Victims Project Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHATZOLAH OF LOS ANGELES — $5,680 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES — $5,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC — $5,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEGACY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM — $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES — $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION — $2,700 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIYOS SHLOMO — $1,330 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOLVE UGANDA INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC — $540 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundJack and Gitta Nagel …Hager FoundationNatalie & Jonathan Ge…Davmarn FoundationRyzman Foundation IncJewish Federation Cou…The Sassoon Family Fo…Jay Morris Foundation…California Community …Chavi F Hertz Foundat…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA42.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · Hager Foundation · Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation · Davmarn Foundation · Ryzman Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Sassoon Family Foundation · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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