How much does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION give?

SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION reported 47 grants totaling $818,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 66 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), International (21%), Education (11%).

Who are SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($405k), American Jewish University ($152k), Jewish World Watch ($119k).

Does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF 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.

Where is SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION based?

SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF 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.

$818k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 47
Grants FY2024: 49
Organizations funded FY2023: 8%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $135,000
Organizations funded a year: 49 to 66; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $12M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	41	$505k	24%
FY2023	49	$712k	8%
FY2022	66	$923k	55%
FY2021	53	$629k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.2MInternational$782kEducation$405kReligion$322kHealth$185kHousing & Shelter$128kCrime & Legal$125kCivil Rights$114kOther$0

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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Washington Institute for Near East Policy	$405,000	4	1%
American Jewish University	$151,800	4	0%
Jewish World Watch	$118,600	4	5%
Tzedek America	$80,000	4	8%
J Street Education Fund Inc	$70,000	3	0%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$64,000	2	0%
Disability Voices United	$60,000	4	2%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project	$60,000	3	0%
Anti-Defamation League	$50,000	1	0%
The Acceleration Project Inc	$40,000	4	1%

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All grantees of SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Washington Institute for Near East Policy	$405,000	4	1%
American Jewish University	$151,800	4	0%
Jewish World Watch	$118,600	4	5%
Tzedek America	$80,000	4	8%
J Street Education Fund Inc	$70,000	3	0%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$64,000	2	0%
Disability Voices United	$60,000	4	2%
A New Way of Life Reentry Project	$60,000	3	0%
Anti-Defamation League	$50,000	1	0%
The Acceleration Project Inc	$40,000	4	1%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Abrahamic House	$35,000	4	3%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles	$30,000	2	0%
Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities	$30,000	4	0%
Hillel at Ucla	$30,000	4	0%
Israel Policy Forum Inc	$30,000	4	0%
La Family Housing Corporation	$30,000	1	0%
Solar Youth Inc	$30,000	3	2%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc	$27,000	4	0%
Jewish Center for Justice	$25,000	4	2%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Shoes That Fit	$20,000	4	0%
Beit T'Shuvah	$20,000	3	0%
The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation	$20,000	3	2%
Temple Israel of Hollywood	$15,000	1	n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences	$15,000	3	0%
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc	$15,000	4	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Holdyou Foundation Inc	$10,000	2	3%
The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Art Over Hate Collective Inc F/K/N Artists 4 Israel Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Temple Beth Am	$10,000	1	n/a
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd	$10,000	1	n/a
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion	$10,000	2	n/a
Food Bank for New York City	$10,000	1	0%
Berkeley Hillel	$10,000	2	0%
Women Against Gun Violence	$8,500	4	2%
Jewish Funders Network	$7,560	4	0%
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Los Angeles	$7,000	3	0%
Jewish Free Loan Association	$5,000	1	0%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger	$5,000	2	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$5,000	1	0%
Hillel 818	$5,000	2	0%
American Youth Symphony Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Friendship Circle	$4,500	3	0%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles	$4,200	4	0%
American Friends of the Heschel Center Inc	$3,500	2	1%
Path	$2,500	1	0%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Homes for Our Troops Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Camp Ramah in California Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Writers Bloc Presents	$2,000	4	1%
Hazon Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Jumpstart Labs Inc DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS	$2,000	2	0%
Milken Community School	$1,500	1	0%
Friends of Elnet	$1,000	1	0%
Tribe Media Corp	$1,000	1	0%
Jfilmla	$1,000	1	1%
Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA39.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ruby Family Foundation · The Field Family Fund · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · Hochberg Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Winkler Lowy Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION

How much does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION give?: SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION reported 47 grants totaling $818,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 66 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), International (21%), Education (11%).
Who are SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($405k), American Jewish University ($152k), Jewish World Watch ($119k).
Does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF 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 SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Federation Council of Greater La, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
Where is SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION based?: SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION is based in CA.