· Private foundation
Robert and Susan Diamond 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Minneapolis Jewish Federation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k21 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $30,060 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $9,286 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $2,200 |
| SHOLOM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MNSD | $250 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICA WAY | $200 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES-MINNEAPOLIS | $160 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $125 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM | $100 |
| TPT | $100 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $100 |
| MYHEALTH FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS | $100 |
| JUDY KERNS PENCE CANCER FUND AURORA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 26% of Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 61%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $24k · revenue +43%
- SFSHOLOM FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +64%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS7× · 2018–2024 · $2k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES-MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2017 · $650
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +111%
- HAHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $360 · revenue +169%
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
To build and sustain a strong and vibrant omaha jewish community and to support jews in israel and around the world.
The mission of the madlyn & leonard abramson center for jewish life (dba "abramson senior care") is to enhance the quality of life for seniors and their family caregivers by ensuring that seniors receive exceptional health care services…
Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 99 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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds Coachella Valley Bridge Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PALS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Moscoe Family Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · Fingerhut Family Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · The Beverly Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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