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Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer 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.

$904k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.4MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$694kPhilanthropy$642kHealth$489kHousing & Shelter$201kArts & Culture$13kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $584k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$330,000
AKIBA YAVNEH ACADEMY$254,400
ANN & NATE LEVINE ACADEMY$100,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS$50,000
BENJAMIN N CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW$50,000
CONGREGATION SHAARE TEFILLA$25,000
CONGREGATION SHAARE TEFILLA$25,000
SHARSHERET$18,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION$18,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
REACH OUT AND READ INC$10,000
FERST READERS INC$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY$3,600
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%FERST READERS INC: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $1k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $365k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $18k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $18k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
GA
TX
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.
$4.8M · 19 repeat orgs$884k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
31

Total granted

$4.8M
$643k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+26%

Still filing today

42%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +57%
  • AA
    AKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +305%
  • SI
    Sharsheret Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $275k · revenue +108%
  • ST
    SHAARE TEFILLA (CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT)
    one grant, 2018 · $219k
  • SE
    SHARSHERET - EMBRACE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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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
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
4
Torah Day School of Dallas

Torah Day School of Dallas is a day school for jewish children grades kindergarden through eigth grade along with pre-school for one through four year old jewish children. The school provides a general studies and secular education meeting…

Education
5
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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6
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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7
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
9
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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10
Hillel of Dallas

To enrich the lives of jewish students and young adults in the dallas area so they may enrich the jewish people around the world and to provide opportunities to explore and celebrate their jewish identities.

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11
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

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…

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12
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva University. 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

25 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. 25 of the 59 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,221,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAKIBA: $612,000 · OtherAKIBASHAARE TEFILLA (CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT): $219,237 · OtherSHAARE TEFILLA (CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT)+40 more: $335,333 · Other+40 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $588,800 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…+2 more: $18,588 · Human ServicesAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY: $434,750 · EducationAKIBAYAVNEH…The Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc: $100,000 · EducationThe Conserv…YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNI…+2 more: $13,600 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $555,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $69,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $525,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH CO…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $275,000 · International+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalSharsheret Inc: $183,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$3,388,370Human Services$657,388Education$648,350Philanthropy$624,000Recreation & Sports$525,000International$277,500Health$183,500

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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $588,800 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $555,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $525,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY: $434,750 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $275,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $183,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $69,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $8,588 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLELS OF NORTH TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVaad Hakashrus of Dallas Inc: $430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $100 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds AKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD ↗
  • Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLELS OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗

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.

Mb and Edna Zale FoundationTX19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Sylvan T Baer Foundation · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Ike & Fannie Sablosky Foundation W00768400 · David & Gusta Rosenberg Family Foundation · The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett Charitable Trust · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Feinstein Family Foundation · Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation · The Rubin Family Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust

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 Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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 59 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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