New York · Nonprofit
SEFARIA INC
SEFARIA INC (New York) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,261,214 to it, the largest being THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION ($5,989,400). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Sefaria Inc does
Mission
Sefaria, inc. (sefaria) is building a digital library of jewish texts and their connections, in hebrew and in english, to transform jewish publishing, technology, education and scholarship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sefaria is building and maintaining a digital platform that lowers the barriers of engagement with jewish texts, creates interactive opportunities for teaching and learning, and provides educators, scholars, and technologists with an open source database of texts to make new educational application simpler and more viable to develop.sefaria's work involves digitizing hebrew texts, acquiring translations of texts and designing and engineering digital interfaces and products for exploring them.
$5,734,635 spentof which $1,937,685 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,734,635.
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 $4.9M to $11M (+119%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SEFARIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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
Daniel Septimus
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Samuel Moed
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $4.8M.
21 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SEFARIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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
SEFARIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
38% 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 SEFARIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 65% · 2019 30% · 2020 38% · 2021 32% · 2022 23% · 2023 40% — 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
48% of SEFARIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
SEFARIA INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SEFARIA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SEFARIA INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sefaria Israel Amutah Ra · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEFARIA INC?
- SEFARIA INC (New York) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,261,214 to it, the largest being THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION ($5,989,400). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEFARIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $25,261,214 in grants to SEFARIA INC, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEFARIA INC?
- THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,989,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEFARIA INC 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 107 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