Washington · Nonprofit
Seattle Hebrew Academy
Seattle Hebrew Academy (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,866,836 to it, the largest being SAMIS FOUNDATION ($6,153,457). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Seattle Hebrew Academy does
Mission
Our mission is to educate our students with a Judaic/Secular dual curriculum and instill in them Torah values toward themselves, the Jewish people, and the world at large. The academy also serves the Jewish community at large by providing adult education and parenting classes and hosting numerous athletic events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our Kindergarten through 8th grade programs served 128 students this fiscal year. We offer an outstanding dual curriculum focused on Judaic and secular studies. Our mission is to instill our students with Torah values towards themselves, the Jewish people and the world at large. Approximately 52% of our students received tuition reduction.
$5,917,794 spentof which $1,185,456 as grants$3,069,277 earned by the program89% of program spendingOur early childhood education center served 49 children with a quality DSHS licensed program for 1 through 5 year olds. The Judaics program celebrates Jewish traditions and values. The multi-sensory preschool program provides a love of learning and exploration.
$764,942 spentof which $93,326 as grants$887,928 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,682,736.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.1M to $15M (+106%).
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: 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Seattle Hebrew Academy’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $60k → $1.8M.
11 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest J-Z Greenberg Educational Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Seattle Hebrew Academy raised.
From the IRS filings of Seattle Hebrew Academy’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
Seattle Hebrew Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 63% · 2019 92% · 2020 83% · 2021 76% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% — 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
50% of Seattle Hebrew Academy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
97% of Seattle Hebrew Academy's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Seattle Hebrew Academy's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Seattle Hebrew Academy
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Seattle Hebrew Academy: 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 Seattle Hebrew Academy?
- Seattle Hebrew Academy (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,866,836 to it, the largest being SAMIS FOUNDATION ($6,153,457). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Seattle Hebrew Academy have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $7,866,836 in grants to Seattle Hebrew Academy, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Seattle Hebrew Academy?
- SAMIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,153,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seattle Hebrew Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 27 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