· Private foundation
The Zommer 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Squadron USA Inc | $175,000 |
| Israel Air Force Center Foundation | $150,000 |
| America Gives Inc | $30,000 |
| The Central Fund of Israel | $29,994 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Druze Technical College Center | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,900 |
| The Central Fund of Israel | $9,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,628 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 38% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 62% that went abroad ($2.3M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 62% of all-years giving ($2.3M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +98% since the first grant, against +76% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FTFlight TLV LTD4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M
- IAISRAEL AIRFORCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $791k · revenue -43%
- TLTeramount Ltd2× · 2021–2022 · $300k
Funded once
- AFAnne Frank Funds Baselone grant, 2020 · $180k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
- DVDruze Veterans Associationone grant, 2023 · $50k
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 mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To raise and distribute funds for charitable organizations with the goal to strengthen the jewish and zionist spirit of the state of israel.
Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 39 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.
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- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zommer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zommer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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