· Private foundation
The Strauss Foundation 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.
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 $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD OF THE WEST SIDE | $22,100 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NOAM ELIEZER INC | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| YM & YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS & INWOOD | $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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +57%
- AJABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +66%
- YMYOUNG MENS & YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSO OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD INC7× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SASALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $22k
- STSTRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue ×15
- IHISRAELI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $13k
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 university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.
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…
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
Inspire and assist each student in his quest to nurture a personal relationship with hashem, develop and refine his character, immerse himself in serious torah scholarship and attain the knowledge and skills necessary to be an articulate…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds STRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS & YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSO OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC ↗
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 · Fjc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Strauss Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Strauss Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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