· Private foundation
Lisa and Alan Engel 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD OF ALABAMA | $16,000 |
| NE MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $15,518 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $10,218 |
| FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| COLLATT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $6,018 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| JFEDLA (WILDFIRE CRISIS RELIEF FUND) | $5,000 |
| GABRIEL PROJECT MUMBAI | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| CHABAD OF MUMBAI INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
88 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 19 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +2%
- NEN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +57%
- ISINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- UMUAB MARY FISCHER CLINICone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UMUAB MARY FISCHER FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- JJDFRone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
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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Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
How this is measured
97 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. 97 of the 195 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.
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ALLIANCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Impact America ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
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- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Hackney Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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