Charles Grunfeld Foundationinc
Lincoln Park, NJ · EIN 22-3649095. Reported 178 grants totalling $998,000 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Charles Grunfeld Foundationinc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Charles E Smith Jewish Day School | Rockville, MD | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Mountain Chai | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation Chaverim | Tucson, AZ | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chabad of Brookville | Glen Head, NY | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Free Burial Society | New York, NY | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mid Island Y Jewish Community Center | Plainview, NY | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene | New York, NY | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ocean County Jewish Federation | Lakewood, NJ | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The City College Fund | New York, NY | $22,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish National Fund | New York, NY | $20,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Historical Foundation | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Sephardi Foundation | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Society of Yad Vashem | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Association for Jewish Studies | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brookville Park Foundation | Brookville, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation Ahavat Olam | Howell, NJ | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dorot Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Jcc Krakow | Suffern, NJ | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center | Glen Cove, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Fellowship of Christians and Jews | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Broadcasting Service | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leo Baeck Society | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Len Mattiace Foundation | Ponte Vedre Beach, FL | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nassau Museum of Jewish Heritage | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ncf Je Chabad of Mineola | Mineola, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Park East Synagogue | Citynew York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sutton Place Synagogue | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tuscan Jewish Community Center | Tuscon, AZ | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Uja Federation of New York | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yivo Institute for Jewish Research | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chai Lifline | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colel Chabad | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Israel Sci Tech Schools | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Gen | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jericho Public Library | Jericho, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation in the Heart of Nj | South River, NJ | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Council for Furth of Jewish Education | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arizona Public Media | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewishgen | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Real Stories Real People | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reel Stories Real People | Jacksonville, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| World Jewish Congress American Section | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fund for New York University | New York, NY | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chabad Sea Cliff Glen Cove | Glen Cove, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregation Agudath Israel | Caldwell, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ny Genealogical & Biographical Society | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Jewish Federaton of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Synagogue of Conservative Judisiam | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Jewish Congress | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
47 of 55 (85%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 95%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 60 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 40 | $217,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 43 | $237,000 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 46 | $256,000 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 49 | $288,000 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 66% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Charles Grunfeld Foundationinc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 19 Sherbrooke Dr, Lincoln Park, NJ, 07035. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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