· Private foundation
Raymond & Z Valeere Sass Family Foundation Inc
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND CHAPTER FRIENDS OF IDF | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450 |
| ZOA | $300 |
| ACT FOR AMERICA EDUCATION INC | $200 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS CANCER CENTER | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Raymond & Z Valeere Sass Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES4× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +53%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC5× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +51%- ZOZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA4× · 2018–2022 · $1k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- AFACT FOR AMERICAN EDUCATION INCone grant, 2022 · $220
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +206%
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.
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
Aipac is an american grassroots organization that works to strengthen the u.s.-israel partnership. our mission is to encourage and persuade the u.s. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring, and mutually…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 19 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.
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- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE BIKUR CHOLIM INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Raymond & Z Valeere Sass Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond & Z Valeere Sass Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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