Washington · Private foundation
Samis 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.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,636,448
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 73
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $109M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Samis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $7.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $7.0M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $6.2M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $5.3M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $5.7M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $5.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Yeshiva High School | $6,606,256 | 6 | 50% |
| Seattle Hebrew Academy | $6,153,457 | 6 | 26% |
| Northend Jewish School | $3,598,200 | 6 | 35% |
| Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder | $3,179,581 | 6 | n/a |
| Seward Park Jewish Preschool Co-Op | $2,832,943 | 6 | 37% |
| Nli USA Inc | $1,000,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $884,666 | 3 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $746,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Seattle Jewish Girls High School | $523,017 | 4 | 23% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 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 Federation of Greater Seattle · Seattle Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Newman Family Foundation · Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Lott Foundation · Fjc · United Way of King County
How this is measured
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About Samis Foundation
- How much does Samis Foundation give?
- Samis Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $8,322,959 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 73 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Samis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Religion (27%), International (14%).
- Who are Samis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Northwest Yeshiva High School ($6.6M), Seattle Hebrew Academy ($6.2M), Northend Jewish School ($3.6M).
- Does Samis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samis Foundation 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 Samis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Seattle Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Samis Foundation based?
- Samis Foundation is based in WA.
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