SFF Foundation

• SFF Foundation funds religious and educational organisations, including schools, yeshivas, kollels and congregations, with grants recorded as general support or for religious or educational purposes; a grant writer whose work does not fit this pattern is unlikely to be a good match.
• A realistic request would be modest: most grants fall between $10,000 and $18,000, the median grant is $10,000, and half of all grants are $10,000 or less, though one exceptionally large grant went to an organisation that itself regrants to others.
• Crucially, the foundation accepts only preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a speculative approach or cold application is not possible here.
• The very high share of grant dollars going to organisations already funded in prior filings suggests this is a relationship-led, rather than competitive open-call, foundation, with new entrants to its giving likely to come through existing connections rather than applications.
• No geographic focus is stated, though the filings show grants mainly in New Jersey and New York.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• BMA Special Fund · General support
  $3,260,5672024 tax year
• Bnos Devorah School · General support
  $350,0002024 tax year
• Congregation Kollel of Flatbush · General support
  $300,0002024 tax year
• University of Iowa Center for Advancement · General support
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Bais Yaakov of Jackson · General support
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Unity in Action · General support
  $50,0002024 tax year
• American Friends of RCT · General support
  $28,0002024 tax year
• Talmudic Research Center · General support
  $20,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.