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SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $274k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA$135,000
WASHINGTON INST FOR NEAR E POLICY$105,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$60,000
ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES$50,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DIST$35,000
JEWISH WORLD WATCH$35,000
AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY$26,800
LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING$25,000
TZEDEK AMERICA$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD$15,000
DISABILITY VOICES UNITED$15,000
CHILDRENS LAW CNTR OF LOS ANGELES$12,500
EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORP OF SO CAL$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%PATH: $3k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%Shoes That Fit: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 52 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
41

Total granted

$2.3M
$338k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

73%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $152k · revenue +30%
  • TA
    TZEDEK AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +989%
  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • AJ
    Amer Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
    one grant, 2021 · $32k
  • LF
    LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +22%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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3
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
6
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
7
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
8
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
9
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
10
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. 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

62 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. 62 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
38/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $420,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONJEIWSH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $235,000 · OtherJEIWSH FEDERATION OF GREATER LAASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES: $200,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF GRADUATESIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING: $88,000 · Other+72 more: $831,800 · Other+72 moreWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $405,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $64,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish …AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES: $30,000 · InternationalISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $27,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $25,000 · International+7 more: $74,500 · International+7 moreJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $235,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $210,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNA…+2 more: $15,560 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $151,800 · EducationAMERICAN J…JEWISH WORLD WATCH: $118,600 · EducationJEWISH WOR…SOLAR YOUTH INC: $30,000 · EducationSOLAR YOUT…CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $12,200 · EducationTZEDEK AMERICA: $80,000 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $70,000 · ReligionABRAHAMIC HOUSE: $35,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · HealthHOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,874,800International$655,500Philanthropy$460,560Education$327,600Religion$186,000Health$100,000Civil Rights$55,000

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 budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $405,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $235,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $151,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $118,600 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTZEDEK AMERICA: $80,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $64,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisability Voices United: $60,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABRAHAMIC HOUSE: $35,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLAR YOUTH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Center for Justice: $25,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AUSCHWITZ JEWISH CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLDYOU FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART OVER HATE COLLECTIVE INC F/K/N ARTISTS 4 ISRAEL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence: $8,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $7,560 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL 818: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $4,200 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
  • Who funds TZEDEK AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds Disability Voices United ↗
  • Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAMIC HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Center for Justice ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds THE AUSCHWITZ JEWISH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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 Foun…Jewish Federation Cou…Jewish Community Fede…The Diane and Guilfor…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Jewish Communal FundRuby Family FoundationThe Field Family FundHyman Levine Family F…Hochberg Family Found…The Rosalinde and Art…Winkler Lowy Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Solar Youth Inc: 19% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 109 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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