· Private foundation
The Abrams Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HADAR | $150,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL | $50,000 |
| IRVING AND VARDA RABIN FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $35,000 |
| FHAO | $25,000 |
| HONEY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| RENNSLAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| B'NAI JESHURUN | $8,060 |
| MMJCCM | $5,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FOOTSTEPS | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $412k · revenue +34%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +39%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute6× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $35k
- JHJJS HENDELL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $35k
- WCWEILL CORNELLone grant, 2023 · $35k
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 further jewish education in israel
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 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.
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds Honey Foundation ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRVING AND VARDA RABIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ↗
- Who funds HIAS 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Abrams Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abrams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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