How much does The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation give?

The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $21,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (10%).

Who are The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Community Synagogue ($38k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($28k), The Actors' Fund of America ($23k).

Does The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf 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 Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc, Fjc.

Where is The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation based?

The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation is based in NY.

The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation

The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf 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.

$21k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$146kHealth$129kPhilanthropy$59kEducation$44kHuman Services$35kAnimals$34kHousing & Shelter$26kInternational$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE	$7,300
FERKAUF GRAD SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY	$5,000
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND	$2,000
SECOND CHANCE ADOPTION LEAGUE	$1,000
PHILLY RESCUE ANGELS	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$480k · 47 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$480k

$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+15%

Still filing today

38%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther

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

UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
2× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +22%
AS
ALEPH SOCIETY INC
3× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +14%
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Second Chance Pet Adoption League Inc
4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +17%

Funded once

1P
14 PLUS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -32%
PC
PERLMTTER CANCER CENTER NYU LANGONE
one grant, 2021 · $5k
AH
AFTD HOPE RISISNG BENEFIT OFFICE EVENT ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

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

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

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

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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The Jerusalem Connection

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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

Wisdom Without Walls Inc

Wisdom without walls is a nonprofit, nondenominational, online learning community that hosts intimate conversations with the most prominent voices in contemporary jewish thought, fostering discussions without ideological barriers.

Religion

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

The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chasday Naomi Usa Friends. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 112 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/51

Grantees still filing

36/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$426,000International$33,725Philanthropy$29,725Health$27,500Human Services$25,180Membership Benefit$22,700Animals$22,500

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eugene and Estelle Ferkauf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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