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The Samuel Bronfman Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$6.1MYouth Development$4.5MArts & Culture$1.3MSocial Science$1.3MInternational$625kPhilanthropy$157kHealth$120kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $550k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL INC$2,383,999
70 FACES MEDIA$200,000
THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU$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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICA-ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $10k → 10%ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMAN ASSISTANT INC: $50k → 8%BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP: $1.7M → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCEITY: $101k → 17%AMERICA GIVES INC: $30k → 14%THEOREM MEDIA INC: $30k → 9%HILLEL (UTAH): $100k → 8%KESHET: $25k → 14%BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP: $1.6M → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCEITY: $66k → 17%HILLEL INTERNATIONAL: $172k → 14%HILLEL OF UTAH: $50k → 8%KESHET: $25k → 14%BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP: $1.3M → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCEITY: $32k → 17%HILLEL INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 14%UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH: $50k → 8%KESHET: $25k → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCEITY: $20k → 17%HILLEL INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 14%KESHET: $25k → 14%HILLEL INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%70 FACES MEDIA: $200k → 17%70 FACES MEDIA: $200k → 17%70 FACES MEDIA: $100k → 17%KEREN OR INC: $20k → 17%JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL: $10k → 17%JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL: $8k → 17%JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL: $8k → 17%JTA-MJL NEW CORP70 FACES: $220k → 17%THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU: $300k → 17%JTA-MJL NEW CORP: $200k → 17%THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU: $281k → 17%JTA-MJL NEW CORP: $100k → 17%THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU: $279k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $60k → 17%THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU: $218k → 17%THE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU: $200k → 17%SEFARIA INC: $10k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%THE BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL INC: $2.4M → 17%BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL: $2.3M → 17%BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL: $846k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
UT
AZ
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 11 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$14M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+4%

Still filing today

73%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • BY
    BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS TO ISRAEL IN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +23% · 82% of their budget
  • 7F
    70 FACES MEDIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • JF
    JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -47%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -63%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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3
Connect Israel

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.

International
4
The Jerusalem Connection
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5
New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International
6
Israel 21c

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.

Education
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
Young Judaea Global Inc

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.

Education
10
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Federation of Utah; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIP: $4,535,770 · OtherBRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPTHE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU: $1,278,000 · OtherTHE BRONFMAN CENTER AT NYU+7 more: $304,745 · OtherBRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS TO ISRAEL IN INC: $5,523,299 · Youth DevelopmentBRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS TO ISRAEL IN INC70 FACES MEDIA INC: $1,020,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES M…AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $219,700 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN J…+2 more: $67,500 · Arts & CultureBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 · InternationalHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $492,000 · ReligionJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH: $50,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyKEREN OR INC: $20,000 · EducationSHEFA SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationSEFARIA INC: $10,000 · EducationVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $6,000 · Education
Other$6,118,515Youth Development$5,523,299Arts & Culture$1,307,200International$575,000Religion$492,000Philanthropy$154,000Education$56,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS TO ISRAEL IN INC: $5,523,299 over 3y, 82% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $1,020,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $492,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $219,700 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetKESHET: $100,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL FOR UTAH: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHEOREM MEDIA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTO LIFE INC: $360 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.

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.

The Shapiro Pogrebin …Covenant FoundationMorton H Meyerson Fam…Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Shapiro Pogrebin FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Samuel Bronfman Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Samuel Bronfman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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