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The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$379kReligion$274kArts & Culture$41kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$513k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH KIDS GROUP FOUNDATION$30,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TARBUTON: $20k → 11%THE AMI SCHOOL: $44k → 14%THE SHABBAT PROJECT: $4k → 17%GEORGE WASINGTON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%JEWISH KIDS GROUP FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%CENTRAL NJ JUDAIC STUDIES INITIATIV: $50k → 8%THE AMI SCHOOL: $21k → 14%JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT: $241k → 17%GEORGE WASINGTON UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%EAST BRUNSWICK JEWISH CENTER: $5k → 8%HEBREW HELPER INC: $9k → 14%NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION: $5k → 17%HEBREW HELPER INC: $4k → 14%CHABAD OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE: $44k → 17%CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC: $32k → 17%CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC: $30k → 17%CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC: $30k → 17%CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC: $27k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $10k → 17%CHABAD OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE: $21k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $10k → 17%CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC: $10k → 17%AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $5k → 17%HEBREW IN NORTH AMERICA INC: $21k → 17%HEBREW IN NORTH AMERICA INC: $20k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 7 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$354k
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+61%

Still filing today

14%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $129k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $65k
  • TA
    THE AMI SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $65k

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $241k · revenue +262%
  • CN
    CENTRAL NJ JUDAIC STUDIES INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -56%
  • T
    TARBUTON
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
5
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
6
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
7
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
9
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
—
10
Fund for Jewish Education Inc
Philanthropy
11
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
12
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Board of Jewish Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Central Nj Judaic Studies Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INC: $129,000 · OtherCHABAD FAMILY PROGRAMS OF THE WEST SIDE INCCHABAD OF THE UPPER WEST SIDE: $65,000 · OtherCHABAD OF THE UPPER WEST SIDETHE AMI SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherTHE AMI SCHOOLHEBREW IN NORTH AMERICA INC: $40,510 · OtherHEBREW IN NORTH AMERICA INCGEORGE WASINGTON UNIVERSITY: $21,372 · OtherGEORGE WASINGTON UNIVERSITYTARBUTON: $20,000 · OtherTARBUTONHEBREW HELPER INC: $13,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $240,892 · ReligionBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INCCENTRAL NJ JUDAIC STUDIES INITIATIVE: $50,000 · ReligionCENTRAL NJ JUDAIC STUDIES INITIATIVE+2 more: $8,636 · ReligionJewish Kids Group Foundation Inc: $30,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$363,882Religion$299,528Education$40,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $240,892 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTRAL NJ JUDAIC STUDIES INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetJewish Kids Group Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONETABLE INC: $3,636 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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