New Jersey · Private foundation
Sheena Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $180
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $513k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Sheena Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $10k | 65% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $40k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $61k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $29k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $26k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $71k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $39k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chasdei Shimon Inc | $97,400 | 8 | 4% |
| Kollel Horaah of America Inc | $59,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Cong Bais Yoseph Halevi Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Lev Simcha | $19,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc | $15,585 | 3 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Shaarei Torah | $10,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Tzur Foundation Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Yaldeinu School | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakewood Cheder School Inc | $7,441 | 8 | 0% |
| Aderes Bais Yaakov Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chasdei Shimon Inc | $97,400 | 8 | 4% |
| Kollel Horaah of America Inc | $59,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Cong Bais Yoseph Halevi Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Lev Simcha | $19,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Tiferes Torah Inc | $15,585 | 3 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Shaarei Torah | $10,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Tzur Foundation Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Yaldeinu School | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lakewood Cheder School Inc | $7,441 | 8 | 0% |
| Aderes Bais Yaakov Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnos Yaakov Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Neve College for Women Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ohr Nosson Inc | $4,940 | 9 | 0% |
| Bais Rivka Rochel Inc | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Camp Hasc Inc | $3,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Misaskim Corp | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc | $2,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Bais Medrash Letorah Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Emek Hatorah Inc | $1,760 | 2 | n/a |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Me-Or Hatorah Inc | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Zaka | $1,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Kol Aryeh of Lakewood | $1,025 | 4 | n/a |
| Mifal Chesed Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Orchos Chaim Inc | $960 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Yeshiva Yesodei Torah Inc | $950 | 1 | n/a |
| Machne Israel Inc | $720 | 1 | n/a |
| Tashbar of Lakewood Inc | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| Nachlas Bais Yaakov | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Keser Bnai Torah | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Bais Hatavshil Inc | $300 | 4 | n/a |
| The Special Children Center | $260 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad of Florence Inc | $260 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Bnot Torah Institute | $189 | 1 | 0% |
| Ne Eman Foundation USA | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Netzach Hatorah Inc | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Zichron Moshe Inc | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| Keser Dovidinc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Moreshes Bais Yaakov Inc | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesoras Hatorah Inc | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Kolel Chibas Jerusalem | $149 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Ner Yisroel Inc | $101 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Rachel Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Bais Medrash L'Torah a Nj Nonprofit Corp | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Izman Torah Solutions | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| The Auditory Oral School of Ny | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Stfa Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $100 | 2 | 0% |
| Hashkifa | $99 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesivta Gaon Yaakov Inc | $54 | 1 | n/a |
| Monmouth Torah Links Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Maysharim Inc | $36 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sheena Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Jewish Communal Fund · Donors Fund Inc · The Sorala Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jsp Family Foundation · The Jonathan & Esther B Rosenberg Foundation · Joe & Eileen Sutton Family Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sheena Foundation
- How much does Sheena Foundation give?
- Sheena Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $10,367 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sheena Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Food & Nutrition (25%), Education (8%).
- Who are Sheena Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chasdei Shimon Inc ($97k), Kollel Horaah of America Inc ($59k), Cong Bais Yoseph Halevi Inc ($40k).
- Does Sheena Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sheena Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sheena Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Donors Fund Inc.
- Where is Sheena Foundation based?
- Sheena Foundation is based in NJ.
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