GrantmakersNew York

Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

New York, NY · EIN 13-1656651. Reported 111 grants totalling $100.7M to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

50organizations funded
$28,482median reported grant
$100.7Mgranted, 2021-2024
41%of grantees funded again the next year
94%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S810) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 94% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
  3. How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $28,482. Half of what it reported fell between $14,100 and $74,670; the smallest was $5,614 and the largest $84.9M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
38 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
23 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
18 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
8 grants
$250,000 Or More
10 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Hadassah Medical Relief Association IncNew York, NY$94.7M332024
Young Judaea Global IncNew York, NY$1,110,340442024
Hadassah Midwest Geo AreaNorthbrook, IL$511,927332023
Brandeis UniversityWaltham, MA$419,064442024
Hadassah WestBeverly Hills, CA$374,823112023
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$354,154222024
Hadassah Metro Geo AreaWest Orange, NJ$310,737332023
Hadassah Florida Geo AreaBoynton Beach, FL$220,832332023
Hadassah Mid Atlantic Geo AreaRockville, MD$202,574332023
Hadassah Florida AtlanticBoynton Beach, FL$199,735332023
Hadassah West CoastBeverly Hills, CA$181,057222022
Young Judaea Camp Tel Yehudah IncNew York, NY$161,178442024
American Friends of the Hebrew University IncNew York, NY$133,575112023
Hadassah Super South Geo AreaAtlanta, GA$126,831332023
Hadassah Chicago NorthshoreNorthbrook, IL$105,111222022
Camp Judaea IncSandy Springs, GA$99,227442024
Hadassah Central Pacific CoastBeverly Hills, CA$95,051422022
Hadassah Southern New JerseyPhiladelphia, PA$94,969222022
Hadassah Southern CaliforniaBeverly Hills, CA$87,168222022
Hadassah NortheastNewton Centre, MA$86,785112023
Hadassah Great PlainsNorthbrook, IL$83,280222022
Camp Young Judaea Midwest IncChicago, IL$78,659442024
Hadassah SoutheasternAtlanta, GA$62,184332023
Hadassah Mountain Southwest Geo AreaHouston, TX$58,654222022
Hadassah Greater DetroitWest Bloomfield, MI$56,469222022
Hadassah Greater SouthwestHouston, TX$55,083222022
Hadassah NassauRockville Centre, NY$53,385112022
Jewish Community Foundation of Orange CountyIrvine, CA$53,372222022
Young Judaea Camp Sprout LakeVerbank, NY$50,550332024
Hadassah Southern SeaboardAtlanta, GA$49,451222022
Hadassah Desert MountainHouston, TX$49,361222022
Hadassah Florida CentralBoynton Beach, FL$48,617222022
Hadassah Northern New EnglandNewton Center, MA$38,856222022
Hadassah WestchesterWhite Plains, NY$33,993222022
Hadassah SouthernAtlanta, GA$30,490222022
Hadassah Southern New EnglandNewton Center, MA$30,383222022
Hadassah Greater WashingtonRockville, MD$28,443222022
Hadassah ConnecticutNew York, NY$27,453222022
Hadassah Greater PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$26,132222022
Greater Miami Jewish FederationMiami, FL$23,173112021
Hadassah Lower New York StateNew York, NY$20,634222022
Hadassah New YorkNew York, NY$20,578222022
Hadassah Greater BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$20,471222022
Hadassah BrooklynBrooklyn, NY$19,733222022
Hadassah SuffolkCommack, NY$17,406222022
Hadassah North EastNewton Center, MA$12,522112022
Hadassah BostonNewton Center, MA$9,340112022
Hadassah Upper MidwestNorthbrook, IL$8,496112021
Camp Young Judaea TexasHouston, TX$7,800112022
Hadassah Pacific NorthwestBeverly Hills, CA$6,918112021

40 of 50 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
4 orgs
International Affairs
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202142$1,467,902$19,722
202244$86.6M$26,394
202317$11.5M$95,071
20248$1,064,931$60,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

96% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$96.4M
California
$798K
Illinois
$787K
Massachusetts
$597K
Florida
$492K
Pennsylvania
$475K
Georgia
$368K
New Jersey
$311K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$96.2M
Beverly Hills, CA
$745K
Northbrook, IL
$709K
Philadelphia, PA
$475K
Boynton Beach, FL
$469K
Waltham, MA
$419K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $28,482 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 40 Wall Street, New York, NY, 10005.

EIN 13-1656651 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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