· Private foundation
The Bob & Brana Paster 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 $10k47 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish National Fund | $11,800 |
| Calabasas Shul | $11,554 |
| Mesivta of Greater LA | $8,000 |
| Jewish Learning Exchange | $8,000 |
| Friends of the IDF | $7,600 |
| American Friends of Aish Hatorah | $7,200 |
| AmFriends of Magen David Adom | $6,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | $5,000 |
| Merkaz Ha Torah Kollel | $5,000 |
| University of Michigan | $3,500 |
| David Labkovski Project | $3,500 |
| AshreinuJAM | $3,000 |
| Chabad of Conejo | $2,160 |
| LA Philharmonic Association | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
70 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +53%- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +202%
- DLDAVID LABKOVSKI PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +377%
Funded once
- CJCHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF LAGUNA NIGUELone grant, 2021 · $21k
- FOFRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -1%
- FOFriends of Bet Knesset Hanassione grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
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…
Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 87 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DAVID LABKOVSKI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rav-Noy Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bob & Brana Paster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bob & Brana Paster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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