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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,559,824 to it, the largest being M D Katz Foundation Inc ($2,431,500). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $102M
What American Friends of Bar-Ilan University does
Mission
We fundraise in the u.s. To support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The American Friends of Bar-Ilan University (afbiu) develops philanthropic support for bar-ilan university (biu) in israel. Afbiu seeks contributions at all levels of giving from individuals, families, foundations and businesses who embrace the university's mission-unique among israeli universities-to provide students with top-level educational experiences in an academic environment infused with jewish values and a love of the state of israel. Historically, the american friends of bar-ilan has operated as a fundraising division within bar-ilan university, serving to broaden the university's donor base in the united states and cultivate a sustained stream of funding. Over 60 years ago, american donors envisioned this university, and stepped forward to make it a reality. Since then, afbiu has been a vital partner in support of the university's mission to create a world class university with strength in stem, law, education and the humanities, that, unique to the university's values, requires a core curriculum that provides a diverse group of students with a common basic understanding of their jewish heritage, history and culture, as well as of the zionist values which underpin the…
$14,531,025 spentof which $13,841,698 as grants$6,500,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,531,025.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $35M to $247M (+600%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jessica Feldan
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.3M.
7 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Haron Dahan Fund for Bar-Ilan University in Israel). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 15% · 2019 16% · 2020 36% · 2021 18% · 2022 43% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Haron Dahan Fund for Bar-Ilan University · exempt
- Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY?
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,559,824 to it, the largest being M D Katz Foundation Inc ($2,431,500). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $16,559,824 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY?
- M D Katz Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,431,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 103 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing