California · Private foundation
The Somekh Family 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.
- $339k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 84
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $725k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Somekh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $323k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $422k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $310k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $394k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $380k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $353k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 84 | $405k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $385k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $685,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $246,050 | 8 | 0% |
| The Middle East Peace Dialogue Network Inc | $192,697 | 6 | 5% |
| American Friends of Reichman University Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival | $96,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Oshman Family Jewish Community Center | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra | $82,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Impactisrael Inc | $62,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Congregation Kol Emeth | $61,429 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 118 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Somekh Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Dare Foundation · Koret Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Somekh Family Foundation
- How much does The Somekh Family Foundation give?
- The Somekh Family Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $339,155 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 84 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Somekh Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (50%), Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (5%).
- Who are The Somekh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($685k), Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($246k), The Middle East Peace Dialogue Network Inc ($193k).
- Does The Somekh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Somekh Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Somekh Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Dare Foundation, Koret Foundation.
- Where is The Somekh Family Foundation based?
- The Somekh Family Foundation is based in CA.
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