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Randa 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.

$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$565kEducation$425kArts & Culture$157kHuman Services$93kReligion$83kPhilanthropy$81kCivil Rights$65kInternational$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND$32,000
JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES$26,070
Individual grant recipient$20,000
MOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL$16,000
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE$5,400
URBAN JUSTICE CENTER$5,113
RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION$5,038
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BENJAMIN N CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION$1,664
NETWORK FOR GOOD$1,545
PROJECTS ALS$1,046
FOOTSTEPS$1,029
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$1,026
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRONXWORKS: $500 → 28%EMMA'S TORCH: $9k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH: $3k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH: $2k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH: $1k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH: $500 → 20%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $51k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $41k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $41k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $26k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $26k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $13k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $12k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $2k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $3k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 76 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
60

Total granted

$1.5M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+10%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FS
    FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    6× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +52%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +5%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN READ CROSS (HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF DONATION)
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -18%
  • ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -66%
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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Berggruen Institute
Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Belk Foundation. 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

82 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. 82 of the 143 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
58/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: $150,250 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHIndividual grant recipient: $61,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: $53,538 · OtherRUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATIONFATHER'S DAY COUNCIL: $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $42,220 · OtherMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL: $41,500 · OtherJEWISH STUDIO INC: $36,000 · Other+92 more: $510,797 · Other+92 moreFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $234,500 · EducationFASHION SCHOLARSHIP F…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $41,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELD…Horace Mann School: $17,000 · Education+4 more: $12,740 · EducationJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $210,632 · Human ServicesJEWISH BOARD OF …FOOTSTEPS INC: $19,814 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INCEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $15,592 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTD+5 more: $13,005 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY: $79,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $508 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $32,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $9,995 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $6,040 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $5,740 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,100 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $12,305 · Arts & CultureUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $46,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BELK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $3,032 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropySave The Children Federation Inc: $37,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $8,078 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,664 · International+2 more: $623 · International
Other$940,305Education$335,240Human Services$259,043Community Improvement$79,508Arts & Culture$70,180Philanthropy$59,532International$47,365

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $234,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $210,632 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $79,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: $53,538 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $42,220 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $32,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $19,814 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $18,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $15,592 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARKSIDE SCHOOL: $10,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget100 SUITS FOR 100 MEN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $9,995 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $8,078 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $6,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,740 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,545 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $5,113 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $4,331 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $3,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $3,032 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,263 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $2,010 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,664 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 FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
  • Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
  • Who funds ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds THE PARKSIDE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds 100 SUITS FOR 100 MEN ↗
  • Who funds THE BELK FOUNDATION ↗

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 FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…David B Kriser Founda…The New York Communit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for Good
Jewish Communal FundNY22.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · David B Kriser Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 143 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.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home