· Private foundation
Sfm Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,100 |
| THE OJC FUND | $34,250 |
| BINYAN YERUSHLAIM | $24,500 |
| CONGREGATION KAHAL YIREI HASHEM INC | $5,800 |
| KOLLEL SHAREI TZION LMETZYONIM | $5,000 |
| KIVISI INC | $5,000 |
| ZICHRON MORDECHAI AVRAHAM INC | $2,900 |
| HASHEMS CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| CONG YETEV LEV | $500 |
| TOIREM | $108 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +135% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $192k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $112k
- CKCONG KHAL TORAS CHAIM BP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k
Funded once
- CDCONG DARKEI AVOS SANZone grant, 2023 · $29k
- YMYESHIVA MESIVTA ARUGATH HABOSEMone grant, 2022 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $11k
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.
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
Keren hayeshivot trust supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
To promote authentic orthodox judaisim by helping fund jewish causes worldwide.
An institution for higher learning and study of talmudic law for post high school students, and students returning from their studies in israel, where they can further their education.
Keren hayeshivot fund supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence
Jewish educational programs
The organization's primary mission is charitable and religious in nature, supporting judaic and rabbinical education by providing financial assistance to institutions of jewish learning, currently through grants to shaare mordechai in…
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 48 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.
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: The Ojc Fund · Hershel and Miriam Herbst Charitable Trust · Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Inc · Strulovich Family Foundation Trust · Joseph Chehebar Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sfm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sfm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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