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Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.3MReligion$963kCivil Rights$425kEmployment$314kInternational$287kHealth$274kArts & Culture$244kHuman Services$221kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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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Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
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

  • 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 +172%

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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 89 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 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 budgetBonei Olam Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $5,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES: $5,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEGACY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA TEHILAS SHLOMO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIYOS SHLOMO: $1,330 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRESOLVE UGANDA INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC: $540 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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