Atran Foundation Inc
Englewood, NJ · EIN 13-5566548. Reported 130 grants totalling $9,768,750 to 55 recipients 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. Atran Foundation Inc 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 $18,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $4,000 and the largest $1,620,000. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $1,705,050 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $1,620,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University | Bronx, NY | $1,550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,490,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yivo Institute for Jewish Research | New York, NY | $520,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Forward Association | New York, NY | $450,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Workmen's Circlearbeter Inc | New York, NY | $355,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Labor Committee | New York, NY | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene | New York, NY | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Workers Defense League | New York, NY | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Traditional Music & Dance Inc | New York, NY | $117,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| T'ruah | New York, NY | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Theological Seminary | New York, NY | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teach | Monsey, NY | $63,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Yiddish Repertory Theater | Weehawken, NJ | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Educational Alliance Inc | New York, NY | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Negro College Fund | Newark, NJ | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project Rozana | New York, NY | $48,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rural and Migrant Ministry Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Union Settlement | New York, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $43,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The American Labor Musuem | Haledon, NJ | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation Beit Simchat Torah | New York, NY | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Closer Look | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bergen Family Center | Englewood, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Make the Road New York | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc | Boston, MA | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| US Friends of Dror Israel | Boca Raton, FL | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York Jewish Agenda | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Office of Concern Food Pantry at St Cecilia's | Englewood, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peace River Presbytery Inc | North Port, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health | Brooklyn, NY | $24,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| In Geveb Inc | New York, NY | $22,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bend the Arc | New York, NY | $21,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Central Yiddish Culture Organization Inc | Long Island City, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Concerts in Motion | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Road Recovery Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The New Milford Education Foundation | New Milford, NJ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Near East Refugee Aid Inc | Washington, DC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc | Palo Alto, CA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mazon Inc a Jewsih Response to Hunger | Los Angeles, CA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| US Friends of Unicef | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Di Goldene Keyt (the Golden Chain) | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ciesla Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League for Yiddish | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Museum at Eldridge Street | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parent Heart Watch | Wilmington, DE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Play Is Forward Project Inc | South Salem, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yiddish Iniative Inc | Coral Springs, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Jewish Council for Public Affairs | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
34 of 55 (62%) 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 73%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Brandeis University
ATRAN CHAIR IN LABOR ECONOMICS - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
EAST HARLEM OUTREACH PROJECT, HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM, AND BIOETHICS NATIONAL CONFERENCE - Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
ATRAN CHAIR OF SOCIAL MEDICINE AND PROJECT TEACH - The Johns Hopkins University
ATRAN-JH CROHN'S RESEARCH - Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
CHALLENGE GRANT AND NEW ARCHIVE PROJECT - The Forward Association
INVESTIGATIVE FUND AND THE FORVERTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 69 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 38 | $7,178,250 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $695,000 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 37 | $995,000 | $18,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $900,500 | $15,000 |
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
64% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $18,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 Atran Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 155 North Dean St Ste 3D, Englewood, NJ, 07631. 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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