· Private foundation
Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMUNAH | $100,000 |
| COMPASS TO CARE CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS NEVE SHALOM-WAHAT AL SALAM | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE BONE MARROW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICA NEEDS YOU INC | $25,000 |
| AMIT CHILDREN'S INC | $25,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $25,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $25,000 |
| GIMMEL FOUNDATION CO GUEDALIA | $20,000 |
| UJA | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK CARES | $15,000 |
| PROJECT MORRY | $15,000 |
| HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +24% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +50%
- CTCOMPASS TO CARE7× · 2017–2023 · $215k · revenue +157%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +13%
- NMNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -23%
- AYAmerican Yedidim Incone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -18%
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.
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How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 79 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.
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds COMPASS TO CARE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds American Yedidim Inc ↗
- Who funds The Gimmel Foundation Inc ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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