Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Barrack 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.
- $69k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Barrack 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; $500 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 | 6 | $69k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $10M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.0M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $2.6M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $431k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.1M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $1.0M | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy | $15,089,100 | 8 | 48% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $748,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Har Zion Temple | $174,171 | 8 | n/a |
| Raymond and Miriam Klein Jcc (D/B/A Kleinlife) | $100,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Whyy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tikva Corp | $51,200 | 5 | 0% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Momentum Unlimited Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Barrack Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 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
How this is measured
About The Barrack Foundation
- How much does The Barrack Foundation give?
- The Barrack Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $69,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Barrack Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), International (18%), Crime & Legal (7%).
- Who are The Barrack Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy ($15M), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($748k), Har Zion Temple ($174k).
- Does The Barrack Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Barrack Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barrack Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Saramar Charitable Fund, Erlbaum Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
- Where is The Barrack Foundation based?
- The Barrack Foundation is based in PA.
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