· Private foundation
The Samuel Bronfman Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $550k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL INC | $2,383,999 |
| THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU | $200,000 |
| 70 FACES MEDIA | $200,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH | $50,000 |
| THEOREM MEDIA INC | $30,000 |
| KESHET | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCEITY | $20,000 |
| JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SEFARIA INC | $10,000 |
| THE SHEFA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $1,250 |
| TO LIFE | $360 |
| FROM PASS-THROUGH ENTITIES | $130 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- BYBRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS TO ISRAEL IN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +23% · 82% of their budget
- 7F70 FACES MEDIA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- JFJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -47%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -63%
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.
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…
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
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.
Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
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…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Federation of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS TO ISRAEL IN INC ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOR UTAH ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THEOREM MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds KEREN OR INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds TO LIFE INC ↗
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: The Shapiro Pogrebin Foundation · Covenant Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Samuel Bronfman Foundation Inc 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.
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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