· Private foundation
The Robert S Rifkind Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS | $10,000 |
| SLIFKA CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $5,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES | $5,000 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST | $4,000 |
| GUCKER CAMPERSHIP FUND | $500 |
| LVIS | $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 (FY21–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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
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 +20% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LBLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC4× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +140%
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES6× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +17%
- TLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $72k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MSMarlboro School of Music Incone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -68%
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
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,…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC ↗
- Who funds LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Marlboro School of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIHU CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA 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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Robert S Rifkind Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert S Rifkind Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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