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Raftas Foundation at a glance

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Raftas 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.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$577kReligion$106kEducation$42kCivil Rights$14kArts & Culture$7kHealth$5kPhilanthropy$4kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $17,599, the rows itemized in this filing. The $53,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,890 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$1,500
Median grant
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States reached
$298k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF PA FOR SCHOLARSH$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS$4,080
VARIOUS < 1,000$3,959
THE DALTON SCHOOL$1,500
BABYLONIAN HERITAGE CENTER$1,060
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER$1,000
AJC$1,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FSH SOCIETY: $150 → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $5k → 22%CITY OF HOPE: $300 → 14%GUILD HALL: $100 → 7%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $140 → 17%AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL INST: $100k → 20%BHCCRC INC J FOR J: $200 → 7%ISRAEL SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDA: $500 → 17%GUARDIAN OF THE SICK: $500 → 20%SOUTHAMPTON TOWN POLICE SUPE: $100 → 7%UJA: $120 → 17%ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH: $100 → 7%SEE ATTACHED: $254k → 17%ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH: $100 → 7%SEE ATTACHED: $250k → 17%BLDG SAGHARBOR PARTNERSHIP: $200 → 7%SEE ATTACHED: $72k → 17%CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL: $6k → 17%INSTITUTION FOR JEWISH IDEALS: $2k → 17%INSTITUTION FOR JEWISH IDEALS: $1k → 17%AMERICA ISRAEL CULTURAL FDN: $1k → 17%KAUFMAN MUSIC CTR: $795 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200 → 17%MOMA: $140 → 17%SAM WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH: $850 → 17%HEBREW UNION COLLEGE: $11k → 17%HEBREW UNION COLLEGE: $5k → 17%NYU: $100 → 17%NYU: $100 → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $100 → 17%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM: $540 → 17%NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $160 → 17%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.
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 10 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

$60k
$116k

Still filing today

0%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • HU
    HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $16k
  • V1
    VARIOUS < 1,000
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PA FOR SCHOLARSHIP
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k

Funded once

  • AT
    AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHERITH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • DD
    DIGESTIVE DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDTION
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTEHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $16,000 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONVARIOUS < 1,000: $10,398 · OtherVARIOUS < 1,000TRUSTEES OF PA FOR SCHOLARSHIP: $10,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PA FOR SCHOLARSHIPINSTITUTE OF JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS: $9,500 · Other+26 more: $38,345 · Other+26 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $795 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200 · Arts & CultureGUARDIANS OF THE SICK INC: $500 · HealthFSHD SOCIETY: $150 · Health
Other$184,243Education$5,100Arts & Culture$1,995Health$650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $795 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANS OF THE SICK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFSHD SOCIETY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIANS OF THE SICK INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds FSHD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Raftas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raftas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $72k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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