· Private foundation
The Ruth and Akiva 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Museum Of Contemprary Art North Mia | $35,615 |
| Feeding South Florida | $30,000 |
| Actors Playhouse Production | $20,000 |
| Refugee Assistance Alliance | $20,000 |
| Temple Beth Sholom | $20,000 |
| Adrienne Arsht Center | $15,000 |
| Solomon Schechter Day School | $10,000 |
| Temple Judea | $5,000 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Fund | $5,000 |
| Coral Gables Art Cinema | $2,500 |
| Miami Community Food Network | $1,000 |
| The Good People Fund | $1,000 |
| The Social Cog | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +83% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AGA GIVING HEART FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +113%
- RAREFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +83%
- MSMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AIAmerican Institute for the Weitzmanone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
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.
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.
Promote understanding and support for the people of israel
Migdal Ohr means "tower of light" in Hebrew and serves as a beacon of hope to thousands of orphaned and neglected children. We serve over 10,000 children every year and raise them to become thriving, successful adults. Migdal Ohr gives…
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…
Support for schools in israel conducting post high school programs in various courses of jewish studies, touring and volunteer work all in israel
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united…
The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…
To provide for the needs of the great synagogue in jerusalem israel.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds A GIVING HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE ASSISTANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIST OUT CANCER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIAL COG INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND 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 · The Miami Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ruth and Akiva Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth and Akiva Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Refugee Assistance Alliance Inc: 92% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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