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The Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE JUDY AND MICHAEL STEINHARDT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+12 grants · $5.5M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC$1,000,000
STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION$700,000
STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION$500,000
STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC$490,903
STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC$490,903
STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC$370,932
STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC$366,487
HEBREW PUBLIC$331,250
HEBREW PUBLIC$331,250
HEBREW PUBLIC$331,250
STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION$300,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC$250,000
STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION$200,000
AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC$125,000
AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC$125,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your US giving — 48% of grant dollars ($6.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 52% that went abroad ($6.9M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KAVOD: $25k → 12%THE COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $50k → 6%CHAI 4EVER INC: $10k → 11%KAVOD: $25k → 12%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
AZ
DC
FL

Beyond the US — 52% of all-years giving ($6.9M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$6.9M · 15 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.0M · 19 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
28

Total granted

$9.0M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +67%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $77k · revenue +127%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    2× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • FT
    FUNDACION TZEDAKA USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • AF
    American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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University of Judaism Foundation
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2
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
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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4
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
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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7
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
8
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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9
The Jerusalem Connection
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10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
12
Sherit Isroel
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%51%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,700

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
29/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION — $6,925,000 · OtherSTEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATIONHEBREW PUBLIC — $1,356,250 · OtherHEBREW PUBLIC+20 more — $454,968 · OtherTHE STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC — $1,719,225 · ReligionTHE STEINHARDT FOU…AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC — $250,000 · ReligionAREIVIM PHILANTHRO…CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · Religion+7 more — $120,400 · Religion+7 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $101,800 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAE…+2 more — $12,600 · PhilanthropyFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $250,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $100,000 · InternationalFUNDACION TZEDAKA USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalAFSNC INC — $14,213 · International+3 more — $21,540 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $128,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $76,800 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $60,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $38,150 · Arts & CultureYOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC — $100,000 · EducationYAFFED INC — $85,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $60,000 · Education+1 more — $1,800 · EducationKAVOD — $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Security Service — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHAI 4EVER INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $3,600 · Human Services
Other$8,736,218Religion$2,189,625Philanthropy$1,114,400International$410,753Arts & Culture$362,950Education$321,800Human Services$113,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC — $1,719,225 over 1y, 99% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $128,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $101,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYAFFED INC — $85,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $76,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAVOD — $50,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Security Service — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION — $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $38,968 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUNDACION TZEDAKA USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAFSNC INC — $14,213 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $12,940 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF YAD EZRAH INC — $10,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDIA LINE LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHAI 4EVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $9,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY — $6,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFIKIM FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF MACCABI USA SPORTS FOR ISRAEL INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundUnited Jewish Appeal-…FjcThe Shimon Ben Joseph…Jewish Community Foun…The Paul E Singer Fou…Nash Family FoundationJewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…The Koum Family Found…
Jewish Communal FundNY36.7× affinity25 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 · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Paul E Singer Foundation · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Koum Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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