· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $343k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW ACADEMY | $168,000 |
| GOLDA OCH ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $50,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE NEW JERSEY INC | $36,000 |
| MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE | $25,000 |
| HOLOCUAST RESOURCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OR NATIONAL MISSIONS | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ | $20,000 |
| CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC | $10,000 |
| THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & CENTER FOR TOLERANCE AND EDUCATION | $1,800 |
| MIKVAH CHANA | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum8× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +25%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +113%- GOGolda Och Academy7× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LTLife Town Incone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -40%
- TFThe Frisch Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +49%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Golda Och Academy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds Friendship Circle New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds American Friends Of Or National Missions ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
- Who funds Life Town Inc ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIKVAH CHANA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIS AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & CENTER FOR TOLERANCE AND EDUCATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam Halpern Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
- Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
- The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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