· Private foundation
Sending Support 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Sending Support Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish National Fund | $45,000 |
| Rose Community Foundation | $40,000 |
| Beloit College | $6,000 |
| ADL Mountain States Region | $6,000 |
| Jewish Family Service | $6,000 |
| Mutual Ground | $5,000 |
| Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| Small donations 501 detail on file | $4,500 |
| Partners in Torah | $4,000 |
| She'arim College of Jewish Studies | $4,000 |
| The Hebrew Educational Alliance | $3,300 |
| MIT-Sloan School of Management | $3,000 |
| The Penn Fund Univ of Pennsylania | $3,000 |
| RM Planned Parenthood | $3,000 |
| CASA Kane County | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Sending Support Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +105%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +107%
- AAAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PSParamount School of the Artsone grant, 2018 · $10k
- UWUnited Way Foundation Denverone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CFCharcot-Marie-Tooth Foundationone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 55 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN TORAH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION NY INC ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds Sportswomen of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
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: Twelve Twenty-One Fund · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · McGowan Gin Rosica Family Foundation Inc · Dunham Fund · Dunham Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sending Support Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sending Support Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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