The Samuel and Jean Frankel Jewish Heritage Foundation

• The foundation states that it does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is not the route it has set out; if you have no existing link to it, this is unlikely to be a foundation to approach now.
• Its recorded giving centres on educational and religious purposes, including Jewish schools and yeshivas, educational programmes, community organisations, youth groups and religious charities, so a small organisation working in those areas is the closest fit; the themes come from its grants, not from any stated foundation purpose.
• Repeat giving is strong: 99% of its grant dollars to organisations in its most recent filing went to groups it had also funded in earlier filings, so the foundation leans heavily on existing grantees.
• About 8 in 10 of its 60 grants fall between $5,000 and $2,300,000, with a median of about $180,000, so size any request with that in mind, though its largest grant was about $25,500,000 and that band is not a ceiling.
• No deadlines or timing are given in the filing, so do not plan around a funding cycle.

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

• Yeshiva Beth Yehudah · Educational
  $25,289,7852024 tax year
• Nistar · Discretionary
  $1,125,0002024 tax year
• Mesorah Heritage Foundation · Religious
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit · Israel youth travel
  $496,6042024 tax year
• V Hechzakta Bo · Religious
  $350,0002024 tax year
• American Israel Education Fund · Educational
  $325,0002024 tax year
• Friends of Sinai Trust · Religious
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Miriam's Well — Be'er Miriam · Religious
  $225,0002024 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.