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The Paul E Singer 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of The Paul E Singer Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 45 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Paul E Singer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 46 organizations, $12M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+16 grants · $10M
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Shares Of Elliott International Limited.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,250,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $1,250,000 |
| THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE | $1,100,000 |
| THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $1,075,000 |
| PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC | $1,020,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $1,000,000 |
| TAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP | $745,000 |
| ONWARD ISRAEL USA INC | $552,500 |
| THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NA COUNCIL | $450,000 |
| ISRAEL AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARTER SCHOOLS | $250,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $250,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF NY | $250,000 |
| ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL | $250,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $703k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
84 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2020, 41 since wound down; 40 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 FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MIMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.4M · revenue +38%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +39%
- TITAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP LTD8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +13% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +115%- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCone grant, 2017 · $460k · revenue +17%
- TTTHE TIKVAH FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue +176%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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 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.
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…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation 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.
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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
138 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. 138 of the 185 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds AFSNC INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ONWARD ISRAEL USA INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL-AMERICA ACADEMIC EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds ITREK INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTIS CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI ART FUNDINC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Heritage Programs ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Koum Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Marcus Foundation Inc
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 Paul E Singer 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.
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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