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Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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71% of Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Foundation Of Greater Rhode Island, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’20
7
’21
7
’22
8
’23
5
’24
4
’25

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

Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$269k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$14k0%
FY20246$18k0%
FY202310$27k10%
FY20228$16k25%
FY20219$25k44%
FY20208$14kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$235kReligion$33kHealth$10kHuman Services$9kEducation$7kArts & Culture$6kInternational$300

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBallenisles Charities Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc: $8,505 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $7,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Wish Group of Rhode Island: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaltz Jupiter Theatre Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation

How much does Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation give?
Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $49,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Religion (11%), Health (3%).
Who are Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ballenisles Charities Foundation Inc ($50k), Temple Sinai ($28k), Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc ($9k).
Does Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation based?
Sundel-Strauss Family Foundation is based in RI.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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