· Private foundation
Masada 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Masada Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Masada Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| CONG BAIS YSEF D ULEM | $350 |
| CHASDEI CHASI L KALAH | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| KEREN ANIYIM | $250 |
| RCCS | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| CHAZAQ | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| BMKGH | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY17–18, $1k) 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.
How this is measured
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 +58% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 93 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $520 · revenue +58%
- HFHEBRON FUND INC2× · 2017–2018 · $450 · revenue +110%
- OTORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $266 · revenue +190%
Funded once
- YYIQVone grant, 2017 · $775
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAELone grant, 2017 · $430
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.
Religious Teaching
publish religious books
Assistance to the indigent
Keren torah vchesed inc. is the american fundraising arm of irgun hesh hatorah an established israeli religious organization that maintains religious centers for worship and torah study and alleeviates poverty in israel
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 190 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.
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: Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Ip Foundation · The Margules Foundation Inc · The Tzedaka Fund · Partners in Giving Inc · The Basch Family Foundation · The Jacob Moses Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Masada Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masada Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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