· Private foundation
The Sf 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| CONG KOLLEL BNEI YESHIVOS | $4,180 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| EZRAS YISROEL | $2,000 |
| CHESED L'AVRAHAM | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| MISC- UNDER 1000 | $1,020 |
| LEV L'ACHIM | $1,000 |
| CONG BAIS MOSHE SHMIEL | $1,000 |
| MOSDOS BOTOSHAN | $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 (FY17–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 24 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MRMosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk7× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +252%
- BABETH ABA TRUST7× · 2018–2024 · $159k · revenue +2%
- SRSHUVU RETURN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MYMESIVTA YESHIVA CHAIM BERLINone grant, 2018 · $36k
- FOFRIENDS OF YESHIVA HARAN INCone grant, 2017 · $18k
- YCYASHAR COALITION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Religious School
The organization's primary mission is charitable and religious in nature, supporting judaic and rabbinical education by providing financial assistance to institutions of jewish learning, currently through grants to shaare mordechai in…
A jewish secondary school which seeks to inculcate its students with high character and religious values to produce future religious leaders
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Furtherance of jewish education
Provide a building for a religious school.
Keren hayeshivot trust supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
Keren hayeshivot fund supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
To promote authentic orthodox judaisim by helping fund jewish causes worldwide.
To provide financial support to the yeshiva knesseth yisroel institution, its rabbis, and students, and lend support to other religious institutions in israel and around the world, with the goal of furthering jewish values among the jewish…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 77 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 Mosdos Rabbainu Nachum Meshadyk ↗
- Who funds BETH ABA TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds TALMUD TORAH CHOCHMAS SHLOMO ↗
- Who funds YASHAR COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA SHAAR HATALMUD ↗
- Who funds TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds AVIHEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR ↗
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 Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Basch Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph Chehebar Family Foundation · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Adjmi-Dwek Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmud: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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