· Private foundation
Robert L & Joan Bramson 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Save a Child's Heart | $2,500 |
| Gateways and Access to Jewish Education | $2,500 |
| American Friends of Leket Israel | $2,400 |
| The Trevor Project | $2,000 |
| Chai Life Line Inc | $1,800 |
| US Friends of Dror Israel | $1,800 |
| Hadassah | $1,800 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SASAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +111%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +43%
- ISISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
- WCWomen's Center of Greater Lansingone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.
To help and support children with rare sybfromes and disorders and their families. to help and support children victimized and traumatized by terror attacks and thier families.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.
To further jewish education in israel
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
Larger than life usa inc is a non profit organization, operating in the usa for the benefit of israeli children afflicted with cancer
American support organization for Kishorit, a community for people with disabilities in Israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Leket Israel Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women's Center of Greater Lansing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Center of Greater Lansing ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.