· Private foundation
The Sandra and Harvey Belfer Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $5,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $2,500 |
| KIDS NEED TO READ | $2,000 |
| ARIZONA MUSICFEST | $1,000 |
| SMILE ON SENIORS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| LYON CLUB BILTMORE | $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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
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 +54% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +113%- HOHospice of the Valley4× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +54%
- AMARIZONA MUSICFEST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- PPPAJAMA PROGRAM AZ CHAPTERone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Collaborative initiatives between az and israel
Alzheimers disease research
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The arizona medical association is the strongest advocate, ally, and resource for arizona's physicians and physicians-in-training. together, we are fostering the practice of medicine, championing patient care, and strengthening the…
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To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The mission of aawl/spca is to provide excellent care, protection, and loving compassion for the life of the animals entrusted to us and to take a leadership role in promoting humane values for the benefit of all animals and people. aawl…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds KIDS NEED TO READ ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds BILTMORE LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds Community Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sandra and Harvey Belfer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sandra and Harvey Belfer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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