· Private foundation
The Louis Sobelman Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $1,798,171 |
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 (FY18–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +211%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +51%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SJSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +39%
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2017 · $13k
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL & TOLERANCE CENTone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The tree of life is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. our mission is to uproot antisemitism by preserving the memory of those lost on october 27, 2018-the deadliest antisemitic attack in u.s. history-and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The center's primary mission is to preserve, protect and perpetuate the authentic memory of the holocaust, by creating a permanent and irrefutable record of the testimonies of survivors, liberators and rescuers. the holocaust center…
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds VIGILANT ENGINE HOOK & LADDER CO INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Louis Sobelman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louis Sobelman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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