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The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation

Name: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

769
grants reported: $175.5M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

jewish israel education teen engagement building emergency

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

General operating support for national Jewish youth and teen organizations
Israel travel and Israel education for teens, students, educators
Jewish educator and communal professional leadership development
Jewish camp, campus Hillel, and immersive experiential education
Post-October 7 Israel emergency response and crisis programming
Applied research on Jewish education and the Jewish professional field

Typical grant

Median grant is $30,000 and the middle half runs $10,200 to $200,000, but the money is concentrated at the top: a dozen national institutions take $1 million to $4 million each in unrestricted general operating support. Project and initiative grants cluster between $100,000 and $500,000. Giving repeats heavily year over year, with the same anchor grantees (Hillel, Birthright, Foundation for Jewish Camp, Moishe House, Hartman, Prizmah, BJE) reappearing across multiple lines and multiple years.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“CAPACITY BUILDING AND GROWTH”
“JEWISH TEEN EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE”
“EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION”
“ISRAEL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame research as applied to Jewish education practice; they fund CASJE at George Washington University at $300K-$500K.
Ask $150,000 to $250,000 for a defined research study; that is their proven range for field research.
Connect to educator and communal professional development, not abstract scholarship. Leading Edge and M2 signal the appetite.
Israel education post-October 7 is the live theme. Boundless Israel got $150K for Israel education research.

Worth knowing: This is a Jewish education and engagement funder, full stop, with no giving outside that field in the record. Money is concentrated in New York, California, and DC among a small set of long-term national partners, and the largest checks are unrestricted general operating support to organizations they already know, which suggests relationship-driven renewal rather than open competition.

7 grants matching “communal” · $587,386

$250,000
Resetting the Table · El Cerrito, CA · 2024
Israel communal crisis support
$100,000
Adamah · Reisterstown, MD · 2024
Retreats for jewish communal professional
$69,886
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Sullam: israel residency for early career jewish communal professionals
$20,000
The Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2024
Jewish communal research collaborative
$7,500
Coro Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Jewish communal placement
$100,000
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Israel fellowship for jewish communal professionals
$40,000
Jewish Communal Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Maimonides fund account

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life13 grants · $10.6M
Birthright Israel Foundation13 grants · $8.7M
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America11 grants · $7.4M
Foundation for Jewish Camp3 grants · $6.5M
Moishe House10 grants · $6.4M
Board of Jewish Education8 grants · $6.3M
Birthright Israel Foundation6 grants · $6.2M
Bnai Brith Youth Organization5 grants · $6.1M
Upstart Bay Area11 grants · $4.9M
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life5 grants · $4.8M

Giving over time

$51.2M

2022

$61.4M

2023

$62.9M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 769 grants.

$4.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$4.0M
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$3.8M
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$3.8M
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Washington, DC · 2022
General Operating Support
$3.5M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General Operating Support
$3.0M
Bnai Brith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$3.0M
Foundation for Jewish Camp · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$3.0M
Foundation for Jewish Camp · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$3.0M
Bnai Brith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$3.0M
Bnai Brith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2022
General Operating Support
$2.9M
Moishe House · Charlotte, NC · 2024
General operating support
$2.8M
Moishe House · Charlotte, NC · 2023
General operating support
$2.5M
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.5M
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
Board of Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Upstart Bay Area · Oakland, CA · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
Board of Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
Upstart Bay Area · Oakland, CA · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
Board of Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$2.0M
Upstart Bay Area · Oakland, CA · 2022
General Operating Support
$1.8M
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America · New York, NY · 2023
Hartman rabbinic ordination pilot
$1.8M
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · New York, NY · 2024
Elevated
$1.5M
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.5M
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools · New York, NY · 2022
General Operating Support
$1.5M
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America · New York, NY · 2022
General Operating Support
$1.3M
Leading Edge Alliance · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.3M
Jewish Funders Network · New York, NY · 2023
New narratives for educating about israel
$1.3M
Leading Edge Alliance · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$1.1M
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · New York, NY · 2023
Elevated
$1.0M
Leading Edge Alliance · New York, NY · 2024
Talent compass
$1.0M
Israel Education Resource Center · Northbrook, IL · 2024
General operating support
$1.0M
Jta-Mjl New Corp · New York, NY · 2024
Capacity building and growth
$1.0M
M2 the Institute for Experiential Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.0M
Sefaria · New York, NY · 2024
Capacity building and growth
$1.0M
The Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2024
Livesecure growth plan
$1.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Onward israel
$1.0M
Board of Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2023
Rootone initiative
$1.0M
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Washington, DC · 2023
Emergency campaign for jewish students on college campuses
$1.0M
Israel Education Resource Center · Northbrook, IL · 2023
General operating support
$1.0M
Mechon Hadar · New York, NY · 2023
Capacity building and growth
$1.0M
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$1.0M
Sefaria · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$1.0M
The Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2023
Livesecure growth plan
$1.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General Operating Support
$1.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Talent Capacity for Immersive Israel Travel
$1.0M
Board of Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2022
Root One Initiative
$1.0M
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America · New York, NY · 2022
Project 412
$1.0M
Mechon Hadar · New York, NY · 2022
Capacity Building Support
$1.0M
The Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2022
LiveSecure Growth Plan
$900,000
Adamah · Reisterstown, MD · 2024
General operating support
$900,000
Reboot · Longmeadow, MA · 2024
General operating support
$900,000
Reboot · Longmeadow, MA · 2023
General operating support
$900,000
Reboot · Longmeadow, MA · 2022
General Operating Support
$875,000
Jews of Color Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Field Building Initiative
$800,000
M2 the Institute for Experiential Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2023
Capacity building and growth
$800,000
M2 the Institute for Experiential Jewish Education · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Capacity Building Support
$790,000
Honeymoon Israel Foundation · East Amherst, NY · 2022
Capacity Building Support
$789,224
Moishe House · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Scaling and Capacity Building Support
$750,000
Board of Jewish Education · New York, NY · 2024
Jewish educators to israel
$750,000
Repair the World · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$750,000
Honeymoon Israel Foundation · East Amherst, NY · 2023
General operating support
$750,000
New Teacher Center · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
Jewish new teacher project
$750,000
Repair the World · New York, NY · 2023
Capacity building and growth
$750,000
New Teacher Center · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
Jewish New Teacher Project
$750,000
Repair the World · New York, NY · 2022
Capacity Building Support
$750,000
Sefaria · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General Operating Support
$700,000
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Washington, DC · 2022
Building IYUN and Research Study on Rabbis
$700,000
The Jewish Federations of North America · New York, NY · 2022
Resiliency Roundtable
$663,570
The Wexner Foundation · New Albany, OH · 2023
Wexner field fellowship and alumni activities
$650,000
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Learning experiences for young jews
$650,000
Jews of Color Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2024
General operating support
$650,000
Keshet · Newton, MA · 2024
General operating support
$650,000
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support
$650,000
Jews of Color Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General operating support
$650,000
Keshet · Newton, MA · 2023
General operating support
$650,000
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Operating Support
$628,000
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Learning experiences for young jews
$600,000
At the Well Project · Washington, DC · 2022
General Operating Support
$600,000
Hazon · New York, NY · 2022
General Operating Support
$600,000
Svara · Skokie, IL · 2022
General Operating Support
$562,500
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2024
Jdc entwine
$555,774
The Wexner Foundation · New Albany, OH · 2024
Wexner field fellowship and alumni activities
$550,000
Honeymoon Israel Foundation · East Amherst, NY · 2024
General operating support
$550,000
Custom and Craft Jewish Rituals · Jersey City, NJ · 2023
Diy jewish network
$550,000
The Miami Foundation · Miami, FL · 2023
For the sake of argument
$550,000
The Miami Foundation · Miami, FL · 2022
For the Sake of Argument
$541,246
The Wexner Foundation · New Albany, OH · 2022
Wexner Field Fellowship and Alumni Activities
$525,000
The Miami Foundation · Miami, FL · 2022
R&D Small Experiments Fund
$519,110
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Talent capacity for immersive israel travel
$506,882
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative
$500,000
At the Well Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Emergency support to send volunteers to israel
$500,000
Foundation for Jewish Camp · New York, NY · 2024
Israel emergency response plan
$500,000
George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2024
Casje research fellowship pilot
$500,000
Mechon Hadar · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schools · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Repair the World · New York, NY · 2024
Jcrif reset
$500,000
At the Well Project · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support

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