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Seed the Dream 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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2022
121
Grants FY2022
27
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Seed the Dream Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 84 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Seed the Dream Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 103 organizations, $9M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

72
’19
55
’20
62
’21
103
’22
99
’23
84
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$21MReligion$8.3MPhilanthropy$7.4MHuman Services$7.0MEducation$2.0MYouth Development$1.9MArts & Culture$1.1MRecreation & Sports$456kOther$0
02FY2022 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k40 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.9M
$20,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc$1,716,520
Birthright Israel Foundation$1,595,000
KAVOD$1,581,227
Jewish Funders Network$518,360
American Friends of Latet Humanitarian Aid Inc$275,000
Jewish Federations of North America Inc$250,720
Maccabi USA Inc$200,000
University of Southern California$160,000
Youth Renewal Fund$112,500
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$110,000
American Committee for the Tel Aviv Foundation Inc$107,000
American Jewish Committee$106,000
The One Love Foundation Inc$100,000
Facing History and Ourselves Inc$100,000
The Jewish Education Project$100,000
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 (FY19–24, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $18k → 8%Valley Youth House Committee: $250 → 11%Turning Point of Lehigh Valley: $250 → 11%KAVOD: $1.6M → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES: $2k → 5%American Friends of Yad Eliezer: $7k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 19%KAVOD: $1.5M → 17%KAVOD: $1.3M → 12%American Friends of Yad Eliezer Inc: $156 → 11%Womensafe Inc: $2k → 9%The Blue Card Inc: $18k → 17%KAVOD: $1.0M → 17%Greater Phoenix Center for Jewish Philanthropy: $2k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $8k → 8%Jewish Family Service of Seattle: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF SOUTHERN NJ: $8k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $2k → 11%Jewish Relief Agency: $87k → 7%KAVOD: $353k → 17%Jewish Relief Agency: $56k → 7%KAVOD: $351k → 17%Jewish Relief Agency: $54k → 7%Tanzanian Children's Fund Inc: $36k → 8%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $50k → 16%Jewish Relief Agency: $54k → 7%Tanzanian Children's Fund Inc: $36k → 8%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $50k → 16%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $54k → 7%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $85k → 8%Jewish Relief Agency: $54k → 7%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 7%Jewish Community Centers Assoc of North America: $100k → 17%SHALOM TASK FORCE INC: $36k → 17%Selfhelp Community Services: $14k → 17%American Friends of the Israel Association for Child Protection Inc: $36k → 7%American Friends of the Israel Association for Child Protection Inc: $36k → 7%Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media: $4k → 22%Gershman Y: $5k → 22%Lubavitch House at Penn Inc: $20k → 22%Lubavitch House at Penn Inc: $14k → 22%Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media: $5k → 22%American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro: $305 → 17%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

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
LA
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Seed the Dream Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Seed the Dream Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 142 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

142 repeat relationships: 100 still active in FY2022, 42 since wound down; 97 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142
61

Total granted

$28M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

76%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • K
    KAVOD
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +275% · 29% of their budget
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +67%
  • YR
    YOUTH RENEWAL FUND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • BI
    Birthright Israel
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M
  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS (KAVOD SHEF)
    one grant, 2020 · $623k
  • BT
    BET TZEDEKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +79%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
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…

—
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
Sherit Isroel
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5
The Jerusalem Connection
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6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
Hillel At Florida International University

Enrich the lives of jewish students

—
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

—
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Brown Hillel Foundation

Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jared Armstrong Basketball Camps Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

237 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. 237 of the 334 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
234/237
Grantees still filing
179/237
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,786,640 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,802,080 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERI…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $610,810 · Philanthropy+20 more: $844,376 · PhilanthropyJewish Funders Network (JFN): $2,541,450 · OtherJewish Funders Network (JFN…Birthright Israel: $1,500,360 · OtherBirthright IsraelUSC Shoah Foundation: $935,000 · OtherUSC Shoah FoundationJEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS (KAVOD SHEF): $623,000 · Other+99 more: $6,714,485 · Other+99 moreBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,565,895 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC: $1,397,720 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS …ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,224,715 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $618,960 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE IS…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $545,000 · InternationalThe American Jewi…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $295,400 · International+16 more: $1,166,288 · International+16 moreKAVOD: $6,098,947 · Human ServicesKAVODJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $359,080 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $282,000 · Human Services+9 more: $315,270 · Human ServicesYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $1,780,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $360,000 · EducationPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $310,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $118,000 · Education+14 more: $557,458 · EducationHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $1,699,967 · ReligionBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $300,000 · ReligionJewish Student Enrichment Center Inc: $219,000 · ReligionCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $128,099 · Religion+9 more: $324,600 · ReligionFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life: $200,360 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $111,000 · Arts & CultureAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chevra Inc: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $41,852 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$17,043,906Other$12,314,295International$7,813,978Human Services$7,055,297Education$3,125,958Religion$2,671,666Arts & Culture$868,212

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,786,640 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetKAVOD: $6,098,947 over 6y, 29% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,802,080 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,565,895 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $1,780,500 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $1,699,967 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC: $1,397,720 over 5y, 24% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,224,715 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $618,960 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $610,810 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $545,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $400,180 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $378,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $360,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $359,080 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $310,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $295,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $290,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $285,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $282,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Student Enrichment Center Inc: $219,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetONWARD ISRAEL USA INC: $208,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $202,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $200,360 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSTRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC: $164,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC: $150,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetFuente Latina Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetITREK INC: $131,513 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $128,584 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $128,099 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $126,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $118,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $118,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $111,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $110,800 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $110,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE TEL AVIV FOUNDATION INC: $107,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY: $100,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIXPOINT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 4.1% 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.

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.

Maccabee Task Force F…Hillel the Foundation…Combined Jewish Phila…Birthright Israel Fou…The Jewish Federation…Jewish Federation of …The Harold Grinspoon …Jewish Federation of …Jewish Communal FundThe Snider FoundationUnited Jewish Appeal-…Sephardic Home for th…
Maccabee Task Force FoundationNV73.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maccabee Task Force Foundation · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Birthright Israel Foundation · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Communal Fund · The Snider Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Sephardic Home for the Aged Foundation Dba the Sephardic Foundation on Aging

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 Seed the Dream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seed the Dream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 350%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Atria Collective Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
35get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 334 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home