How much does Micah Philanthropies give?

Micah Philanthropies reported 65 grants totaling $6,796,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Micah Philanthropies fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (23%).

Who are Micah Philanthropies's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Harold Grinspoon Foundation ($1.8M), Yeshivat Maharat Inc ($1.4M), Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd (Formerly the Meorot Inst) ($1.2M).

Does Micah Philanthropies fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Micah Philanthropies accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Micah Philanthropies?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Aviv Foundation Inc, Fjc.

Where is Micah Philanthropies based?

Micah Philanthropies is based in MA.

Micah Philanthropies

Micah Philanthropies at a glance

· Private foundation

Micah Philanthropies

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$6.1MEducation$5.3MPhilanthropy$4.4MInternational$1.2MEnvironment$435kCivil Rights$396kSocial Science$327kHuman Services$285kOther$0

02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $58k
$10k–50k18 grants · $382k
$50k–250k28 grants · $2.6M
$250k+8 grants · $3.8M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$180M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD	$1,075,000
NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY AKA HHNE	$793,000
YESHIVAT MAHARAT	$453,000
YCT RABBINICAL SCHOOL	$351,800
HADAR INSTITUTE	$350,000
PRIZMAH	$277,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY	$250,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION	$250,000
OHR TORAH STONE	$225,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT	$200,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA	$137,500
INTERNATIONAL BEIT DIN	$133,000
DRISHA INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH EDUCATION	$130,000
SIXPOINT INC	$125,000
SEFARIA	$123,500

02The need

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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 49 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+104%

Still filing today

61%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $795k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationReligionInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

YC
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST)
5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
YU
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
6× · 2018–2024 · $910k · revenue +62%
OT
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
5× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +53%

Funded once

MT
M2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $71k · revenue +231%
TT
THE TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +12%
JC
JEWISH CREATIVITY INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2022 · $30k

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

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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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

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida

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Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education

Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

Torah Ore Seminary

To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Teen Learning Connectioninc. 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

50 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. 50 of the 83 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

29/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,694,006Education$4,231,756Philanthropy$2,807,500Religion$799,000International$749,500Crime & Legal$293,499Environment$240,000

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY40.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Aviv Foundation Inc · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Lisa & Michael Leffell Foundation

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 Micah Philanthropies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Micah Philanthropies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home