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The Barrack 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.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$16MInternational$4.1MCrime & Legal$1.6MHealth$827kReligion$218kHuman Services$153kArts & Culture$102kPhilanthropy$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $10M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY$10,015,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FD$50,000
EFRAT FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HAR ZION TEMPLE$4,104
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES$1,000
HILLEL AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$750
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $100 → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $200 → 9%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $500 → 7%JCHAI: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
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AR
DC
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 35 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
62

Total granted

$19M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+10%

Still filing today

43%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JM
    JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +70% · 48% of their budget
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    6× · 2017–2023 · $748k · revenue +5%
  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $95k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AC
    ABRAMSON CANCER CENTER OF THE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WHYY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • TF
    TEMPLE FALLEN HEROES FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
2
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

5
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

6
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

7
The Jerusalem Connection
8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
Sherit Isroel
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation At Princeton

Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsGovernment Accountability R…Developmental Disabilities …Cancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Senior LivingAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Missionary Organi…Fallen First Responder Supp…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr17%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr15%75%35–55yr17%24%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,111

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.

04the grantee network

44 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $15,089,100 · OtherJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMYTEMPLE UNIVERSITY - JAMES E BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW — $1,550,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY - JAMES E BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWABRAMSON CANCER CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN — $708,700 · Other+72 more — $912,749 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,732,800 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FU…+2 more — $7,500 · InternationalTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $748,250 · EducationTIKVA CORP — $51,200 · Education+5 more — $10,900 · EducationRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) — $100,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,780 · Recreation & SportsWHYY INC — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $29,800 · PhilanthropyDETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC — $6,500 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RACHEL & DREW KATZ FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $800 · Human Services
Other$18,260,549International$3,740,300Education$810,350Recreation & Sports$102,280Arts & Culture$101,500Philanthropy$43,800Human Services$15,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY — $15,089,100 over 8y, 48% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,732,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $748,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) — $100,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWHYY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTIKVA CORP — $51,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $29,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC — $4,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH PROJECT INC — $3,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RACHEL & DREW KATZ FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPWHEELS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center of Atlantic County — $1,780 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL 272 SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrot — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 JACK M BARRACK HEBREW ACADEMY
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE)
  • Who funds WHYY INC
  • Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds TIKVA CORP
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
  • Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds OUTREACH PROJECT INC
  • Who funds HEBRON FUND INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 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.

The Saramar Charitable FundPA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Specter Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Georgejack & Joan Shuster Foundation Inc C/O Gail Norry · Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund · The Herman & Jerry Finkelstein Fdn · Himmelstein Family Foundation · The Jill and Mark Fishman Foundation · Horowitz Family Foundation · Julius & Ray Charlestein Foundation

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 The Barrack 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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