New Jersey · Private foundation
Sam Halpern 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.
- $525k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $168,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $475k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $381k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $395k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $459k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $433k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $442k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $432k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $383k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy | $936,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $365,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Golda Och Academy | $239,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Educational Center | $195,000 | 7 | n/a |
| American Society for Yad Vashem Inc | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Holocaust Resource Foundation | $85,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friendship Circle New Jersey Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends Of Or National Missions | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy | $936,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $365,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Golda Och Academy | $239,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Educational Center | $195,000 | 7 | n/a |
| American Society for Yad Vashem Inc | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Holocaust Resource Foundation | $85,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friendship Circle New Jersey Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends Of Or National Missions | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Life Town Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Frisch School | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinitas Foundation | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Barnabas Medical Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Overlook Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ramaz School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mikvah Chana Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bris Avrohom Inc | $2,520 | 2 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($955k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Rosenfield Family Foundation · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Kahn Leonard B Foundation · PAULA and Jerry GOTTESMAN FAMILY SUPPORTING FOUNDATION INC · The Ronald Domb Foundation Inc · Edward H Harvitt Family Foundation · The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj · The Hyde and Watson Foundation
How this is measured
About Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc give?
- Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $525,160 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (19%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy ($936k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($365k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($250k).
- Does Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, The Rosenfield Family Foundation.
- Where is Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc based?
- Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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