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The Barrack Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$16MInternational$4.1MCrime & Legal$1.6MHealth$827kReligion$218kHuman Services$153kArts & Culture$102kPhilanthropy$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
THE PFAP FOUNDATION INC$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM$5,000
THE HEBRON FUND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,600
HILLEL AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 36 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
62

Total granted

$19M
$360k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+9%

Still filing today

44%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalHealthReligionOther
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.

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

  • WHYY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • AC
    ABRAMSON CANCER CENTER OF THE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Sherit Isroel
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6
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…

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7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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9
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
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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11
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…

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12
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pfap Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 103 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+75 more: $921,899 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,732,800 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FU…+4 more: $62,500 · 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 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyDETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC: $6,500 · PhilanthropyTHE RACHEL & DREW KATZ FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 · ReligionTHE PFAP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$18,269,699International$3,795,300Education$810,350Recreation & Sports$102,280Arts & Culture$101,500Philanthropy$48,800Religion$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $29,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 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 budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGRATZ COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $4,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH PROJECT INC: $3,900 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPWHEELS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJewish Community Center of Atlantic County: $1,780 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL 272 SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $700 over 3y, 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 budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation: $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
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 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 AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
  • Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds DETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE PFAP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE 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.

The Saramar Charitabl…Erlbaum Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …The Specter FoundationKatz Family Charitabl…Georgejack & Joan Shu…Samuel D Cozen Memori…The Herman & Jerry Fi…Himmelstein Family Fo…The Jill and Mark Fis…Horowitz Family Found…Julius & Ray Charlest…
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Barrack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barrack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 103 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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