· Private foundation
The Leon H Charney Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of The Leon H Charney Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Leon H Charney Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $400k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2020
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT OF AMERICA | $250,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $102,890 |
| CHABAD AT STONY BROOK | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEARTBEET LIFESHARING | $5,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| THE LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGN | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–22, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2020, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM3× · 2018–2020 · $1.3M · revenue +105%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TATHE ARCH MISSION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue 0% · 52% of their budget
- CCCREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- BHBEIT HATFUTSOT OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
Foster and encourage liberal arts and obtain art and archaeology for the israel museum , obtain grants and contributions for and make grants and contributions to the israel museum.
To raise awareness in the united states and provide support for the open university of israel's vital mission of making access to higher education available to capable and motivated students from all sectors of israeli society.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
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…
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
To provide for the needs of the great synagogue in jerusalem israel.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEGACY ↗
- Who funds THE ARCH MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UMM EL-FAHEM MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AR ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds CITYARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Hardy Lane Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Leon H Charney Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Leon H Charney Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: 13% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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