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Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$39kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$7kReligion$5kEducation$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISrael Special Kids Fund: $3k → 17%ISrael Special Kids Fund: $3k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$80k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+23%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +111%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +43%
  • IS
    ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • WC
    Women's Center of Greater Lansing
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +23%
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
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
2
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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3
Partners Charity Fund for Israel

To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.

Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Hakav Hameached Inc

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.

International
5
Sherit Isroel
—
6
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
7
Israel Select Charity Fund Inc

Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.

Human Services
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
Humanitarian Partnership for Israel

Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide

Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Tzohar

Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel

—
11
Larger Than Life Usa Inc

Larger than life usa inc is a non profit organization, operating in the usa for the benefit of israeli children afflicted with cancer

Human Services
12
American Friends of Kishorit Inc

American support organization for Kishorit, a community for people with disabilities in Israel.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Leket Israel Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $15,601 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCGateways: $13,101 · OtherGatewaysHadassah: $5,400 · OtherHadassahUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC: $3,100 · OtherUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INCGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,600 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCGateways and Access to Jewish Education: $2,500 · OtherGateways and Access to Jewish Education+1 more: $1,200 · OtherCHAI LIFELINE INC: $13,801 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INCISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,501 · HealthISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDAT…ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $8,001 · Human ServicesISRAEL SPE…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $6,300 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $4,400 · Philanthropy
Other$43,502Health$24,302Human Services$8,001Civil Rights$6,300Philanthropy$4,400

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 budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $15,601 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $13,801 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,501 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $8,001 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $6,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC: $3,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Center of Greater Lansing: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert L & Joan Bramson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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