New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,051,382 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($512,939). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $906k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $361k
What American Sephardi Federation does
Mission
The American Sephardi Federation preserves, promotes, and perpetuates the rich mosaic history, cultures, and traditions of greater sephardic communities as an essential part of the jewish experience by creating high-profile events, exhibitions, and scholarly and cultural conferences, producing widely-read online and print publications, supporting research, scholarship, the national sephardic library & archives, sephardi house and broome & allen fellows on campuses coast-to-coast, as well as representing the sephardic voice in diplomatic and jewish communal affairs as a member of the conference of presidents of major american jewish organizations, world jewish congress, and the usas chair at the world sephardi federation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sephardi house fellowship - the sephardi house fellowship is an innovative national movement that is enlightening, empowering, and enriching jewish college students through an immersion in the vibrant history, values, and vision of the greater sephardi world. On campuses coast-to-coast we are infusing the wisdom and warmth of classic sephardic teachings that have been a source of strength, resilience, and unity throughout the ages.
$157,391 spentof which $27,600 as grants27% of program spendingNew york sephardic jewish film festival - the new york sephardic jewish film festival is the world's premiere experience dedicated to celebrating the rich mosaic culture and traditions of jews from the middle east and greater sephardic diaspora, including by honoring exceptional individuals for their literary, artistic, and other achievements with the asf pomegranate awards.
$173,998 spent$48,535 earned by the program29% of program spendingNational sephardic library & archives - the asf is home to one of the largest publicly accessible libraries and archives of greater sephardic interest in the western hemisphere, containing books, documents, photographs, films, judaica, and ephemera, at the center for jewish history. A proud partner of the american jewish historical societys jewish archives history network. Important asf collections include: the archives of sephardic jewish brotherhood of america and the sephardic home for the aged. Professor aviva ben-ur has described the judeo-spanish collection of louis n. Levy at the asf as "one of the most important ladino collections in the world".
$57 spent0% of program spendingOther program services include conferences, theatrical productions, lectures, other cultural programs, national library and a variety of other programs.
$260,641 spentof which $22,000 as grants$5,000 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $592,087.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.4M to $954k (−33%).
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.
88% of AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Mike Nassimi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $163k → $220k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 SEPHARDI FEDERATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 45% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 30% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — 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
85% of AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
79% of AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $995k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SEPHARDI FEDERATION's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $828k on record.
- Agency for International Development$798k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION: 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 SEPHARDI FEDERATION?
- AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,051,382 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($512,939). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,051,382 in grants to AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $512,939 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 29 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing