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Senser 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA GIVES | $120,000 |
| BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $50,000 |
| MOVING TRADITIONS | $40,000 |
| FUENTE LATINA | $40,000 |
| JEWISH WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| RED TENT FUND | $30,000 |
| BNAI ABRAHAM-ZION CONGREGATION (GLASSER PRESCHOOL) | $11,000 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| SHALVA | $10,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA MIDWEST | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Senser Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TSTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA6× · 2018–2024 · $415k · revenue +1%
- AGAMERICA GIVES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $405k · revenue +226%
- SISHALVA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- OFORGANIZATION FOR THE RESOLUTION OF AGUNOT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +34%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE GHETTO FIGHTERS' MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $55k
- STSHALOM TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.
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The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighbors for Environmental Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLOT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A WIDER BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR THE RESOLUTION OF AGUNOT INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
- Who funds SHALOM TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds Little Village Environmental Justice Org ↗
- Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIDUM INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds MAOT CHITIM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds RED TENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH POCET ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbors for Environmental Justice ↗
- Who funds EVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Fjc · Hochberg Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · New Venture Fund · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Chicago Community Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Senser Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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