· Private foundation
The Sonkin Family 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION PALM BEACH | $248,570 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $62,084 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT | $30,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - DETROIT | $6,500 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE | $6,209 |
| INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION | $5,791 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHLIDREN'S SERVICES | $5,250 |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $2,000 |
| B'NAI BRITH INTERNATIONAL | $1,900 |
| BALLEN ISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION | $1,570 |
| EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (EMA) | $1,300 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS | $1,200 |
| PEARL OF ISRAEL CHARITY FDTN | $1,200 |
| HADASSAH | $1,100 |
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 (FY23–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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 +41% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 94% 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
- HIHerizon Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +217%
- ITINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +311%
- BCBALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $180k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISREAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 94 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 Herizon Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PALM BEACH SECTION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Melton Foundation ↗
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 Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sonkin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sonkin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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