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The Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation at a glance

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The Judy and Michael Steinhardt 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.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.2MReligion$3.5MArts & Culture$1.4MEducation$514kInternational$406kHuman Services$215kFood & Nutrition$35kEnvironment$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $952k
  • $250k+4 grants · $5.8M
$62,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC$2,478,900
STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ISREAEL$2,330,000
HEBREW PUBLIC$750,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$250,000
AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC$200,000
ONETABLE INC$200,000
OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$150,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INC$100,000
JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY$75,000
QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$64,959
FJC$62,500
COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE$50,000
OPENDOR MEDIA$50,000
ISRAELI PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC$25,000
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KAVOD: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $50k → 6%CHAI 4EVER INC: $10k → 11%KAVOD: $25k → 12%THE COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $50k → 6%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
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

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
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 28 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
36

Total granted

$15M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    THE STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +23% · 99% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +67%
  • JF
    JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -28%
  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • CO
    CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +31%
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
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
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
4
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
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
Sherit Isroel
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7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
8
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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9
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshman Family Jewish Community Center; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 73 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
34/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $6,925,000 · OtherSTEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATIONSTEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ISREAEL: $2,330,000 · OtherSTEINHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ISREAELHEBREW PUBLIC: $2,106,250 · OtherHEBREW PUBLIC+21 more: $777,427 · Other+21 moreTHE STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC: $4,198,125 · ReligionTHE STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FO…AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $450,000 · ReligionAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP …ONETABLE INC: $200,000 · Religion+9 more: $285,400 · Religion+9 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $101,800 · Philanthropy+3 more: $20,100 · PhilanthropyBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · EducationYOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC: $100,000 · EducationYAFFED INC: $85,000 · EducationHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $60,000 · Education+2 more: $11,800 · EducationFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $250,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $200,000 · InternationalFUNDACION TZEDAKA USA INC: $25,000 · International+4 more: $35,753 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $138,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $76,800 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $60,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $48,150 · Arts & CultureCommunity Security Service: $100,000 · Human ServicesKAVOD: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHAI 4EVER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,600 · Human Services
Other$12,138,677Religion$5,133,525Philanthropy$1,121,900Education$581,800International$510,753Arts & Culture$457,950Human Services$163,600

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 budgetTHE STEINHARDT FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE INC: $4,198,125 over 2y, 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: $450,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $138,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $103,927 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $101,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Security Service: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYAFFED INC: $85,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $76,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKAVOD: $50,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION: $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $43,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIsraeli Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetFUNDACION TZEDAKA USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% 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 budgetCHAI 4EVER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOSEPH SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDIA LINE LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $9,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS OF NEW YORK HARBOR CONSERVANCY DBA FEDERAL HALL CONSERVANCY: $6,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,600 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF MACCABI USA SPORTS FOR ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 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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