· Private foundation
Namdar Foundation
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED MASHADI JEWISH CENTER | $59,556 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NY | $10,000 |
| TIFERET SHLOMO BOYS ORPHANAGE HOME | $9,600 |
| JCC OF GREAT NECK | $6,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| FOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS | $2,700 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL YEHUDA | $2,400 |
| STUDENTS IN ISRAEL INC | $2,260 |
| WIZO | $1,800 |
| HERITAGE HOUSE | $1,040 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 72% of grant dollars ($684k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($261k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 28% of all-years giving ($261k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +214% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 Kol Yehuda Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +6%
- SISTUDENTS IN ISRAEL7× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +293%
- HMHeichal Mordechai Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- IJIRANIAN JEWISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
- TSTHE SHAARE DINA CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Support of religious schools in Israel
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 43 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 Kol Yehuda Inc ↗
- Who funds IRANIAN AMERICAN JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS IN ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Heichal Mordechai Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Namdar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Namdar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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