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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
51/107 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,734,635.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 278 ($5.4M) Expenses 56 ($2.3M) Net assets 263 ($5.1M)2019 Revenue 76 ($1.5M) Expenses 74 ($3.0M) Net assets 185 ($3.6M)2020 Revenue 222 ($4.4M) Expenses 91 ($3.7M) Net assets 220 ($4.3M)2021 Revenue 236 ($4.6M) Expenses 102 ($4.1M) Net assets 245 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 240 ($4.7M) Expenses 119 ($4.8M) Net assets 239 ($4.6M)2023 Revenue 641 ($13M) Expenses 167 ($6.7M) Net assets 539 ($10M)2024 Revenue 231 ($4.5M) Expenses 192 ($7.8M) Net assets 372 ($7.2M)2025 Revenue 349 ($6.8M) Expenses 192 ($7.8M) Net assets 323 ($6.3M)
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Revenue (349)Expenses (192)Net assets (323)Peer revenue range

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%).

$2.0M
$5.2M
$3.8M
$4.5M
$5.1M
$4.9M
$11M
$7.6M
$6.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.1M
’17
$3.2M
’18
−$1.5M
’19
$667k
’20
$486k
’21
−$115k
’22
$5.8M
’23
−$3.2M
’24
−$950k
’25
5.4
months of
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.

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Listed101214151717162121
Joined·+2+2+2+3+1+0+10+4
No longer listed·00111154
03Who funds it

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.

24%
largest funder
64%
top three
~7
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SEFARIA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 12%Fundraising 14%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
FL

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