Private foundation
The Fred & Suzan Ehrman 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.
- $219k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Fred & Suzan Ehrman 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; $360 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 | 47 | $209k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $159k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $170k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $201k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $193k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $162k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel | $185,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Gemach Zichron Moshe Inc | $106,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lincoln Square Synagogue Inc | $82,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service | $65,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Yeshiva Ohr Torah | $54,000 | 6 | n/a |
| National Jewish Outreach Program In | $48,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Tikvah Fund | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Just One Life Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Second Stage Theatre Inc | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Ojc Fund · Cd Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Feldman Family Foundation Inc · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation with peer funders
About The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation
- How much does The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation give?
- The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $219,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ($185k), Gemach Zichron Moshe Inc ($106k), Lincoln Square Synagogue Inc ($82k).
- Does The Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fred & Suzan Ehrman 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 Fred & Suzan Ehrman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Fjc.
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