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The Rose and Bernard Strauss Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rose and Bernard Strauss 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$332kHealth$49kFood & Nutrition$15kReligion$12kPhilanthropy$11kAnimals$8kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$990k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE IDF (FIDF)$20,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$10,000
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY$5,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$5,000
CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM (AFMDA)$5,000
MAZON$5,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER$5,000
COMMUNITY CUPBOARD OF AMBLER$2,000
FRIENDS OF YAD LAKASHISH$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
MAIN LINE ART CENTER$2,000
JEFFERSON HEALTH$1,000
BUCKS COUNTY SPCA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $5k → 6%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $500 → 7%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $2k → 6%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 8 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$131k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+581%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    7× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +206%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - RESILIENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - THERAPETUIC RIDING
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
The Jerusalem Connection
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2
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

The jewish federation of greater philadelphia mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to create a bright future for jewish people everywhere. the jewish federation cares for those in need, combats antisemitism and global crises, and…

Philanthropy
3
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Abraham & Florence Mendel Foundation
—
7
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
—
8
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Joseph and Malka Melohn Foundation
—
11
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
12
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Relief Agency; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $255,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $42,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $38,000 · OtherCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION OF…FRIENDS OF THE IDF (FIDF): $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE IDF (FIDF)ISRAEL GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15,500 · OtherISRAEL GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLI…Individual grant recipient: $12,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLEL CHABAD: $10,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADJEWISH NATIONAL FUND - RESILIENCE: $6,000 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUND - THERAPETUIC RIDING: $5,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $7,000 · Other+4 moreISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $6,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5,000 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $500 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyMain Line Art Center: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals
International$297,500Other$118,750Human Services$12,000Health$11,000Philanthropy$7,500Arts & Culture$2,000Education$1,000Animals$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $255,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMain Line Art Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds Main Line Art Center ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rose and Bernard Strauss Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rose and Bernard Strauss Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 23 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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