· Private foundation
The Selma and Irving Ettenberg 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYANT UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| NCJW ESSEX COUNTY NJ | $25,000 |
| PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN | $18,000 |
| CASA OF MORRIS & SUSSEX COUNTIES | $15,000 |
| ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $13,600 |
| SOUND START BABIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE PAP CORPS | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL OF BOCA RATON | $8,850 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION - FLORIDA CHAPTER | $8,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $7,000 |
| TEMPLE SHAAREI SHALOM | $6,000 |
| BIG RED FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC | $5,000 |
| RELIC THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
69 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 41 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $836k · revenue +22%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +48%
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN5× · 2021–2025 · $104k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- VHVeterans Healing Farmgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +179%
- GBGRACE BAPTIST CHURCH OF DEERFIELD BEACHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -56%
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.
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How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 162 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 BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MORRIS AND SUSSEX COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND START BABIES PROGRAM FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING SKY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACOB S ZWEIG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FISHING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Veterans Healing Farm ↗
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: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Sokol Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Moss Foundation Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · American Express Foundation · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Selma and Irving Ettenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Selma and Irving Ettenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Broward County Inc: 27% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc: 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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