GrantmakersGeorgia

Halpern-Oppenheimer Family

Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-2512118. Reported 71 grants totalling $5,137,800 to 27 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

27organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$5,137,800granted, 2020-2023
88%of grantees funded again the next year
58%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 Halpern-Oppenheimer Family, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T112).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 58% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 88% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $22,500; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,365,000. 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
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
55 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
8 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 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
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta IncSandy Springs, GA$2,993,000442023
Epstein School Foundation IncSandy Springs, GA$690,600332023
The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School IncSandy Springs, GA$267,500442023
Rabbi Harry H Epstein School IncSandy Springs, GA$225,200112022
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta IncAtlanta, GA$105,000222023
American Friends of Magen David AdomNew York, NY$100,000112023
Friends of the Israel Defense ForcesNew York, NY$100,000112023
Hillels of Georgia IncAtlanta, GA$72,500442023
Birthright Israel FoundationNew York, NY$60,000442023
Jewish Family & Career Services IncAtlanta, GA$50,000442023
Jewish Home Life Communities IncAtlanta, GA$50,000112023
A Cure in Our Lifetime IncChappaqua, NY$40,000442023
American Jewish CommitteeNew York, NY$40,000442023
Anti Defamation League FoundationNew York, NY$40,000442023
In the City Camp IncAtlanta, GA$40,000442023
Jewish Kids GroupAtlanta, GA$40,000442023
Temple Sinai IncSandy Springs, GA$40,000442023
The William Breman Jewish Home IncAtlanta, GA$40,000442023
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$30,000332023
Second Helpings Atlanta IncAtlanta, GA$30,000332023
Alexander Muss Institute for Israel Education IncRockville Ctr, NY$20,000222022
William Bremen Jewish Heritage MusuemAtlanta, GA$18,000112020
American Friends of the Israel Sport Center for the DisabledNorthfield, IL$10,000112021
Eternal Life - HemshechSandy Springs, GA$10,000112023
JOURNEY4HOPELos Angeles, CA$10,000112023
Next Generation Men and Women IncAtlanta, GA$10,000112022
Jewish National Fund -Keren Kayemeth Leisrael- IncRockville Ctr, NY$6,000112023

17 of 27 (63%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 27 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.

International Affairs
6 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202014$901,200$10,000
202117$935,200$10,000
202218$1,127,700$10,000
202322$2,173,700$10,000

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

92% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. 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.

Georgia
$4.7M
New York
$406K
Illinois
$10K
California
$10K

Down to the city

Sandy Springs, GA
$4.2M
Atlanta, GA
$486K
New York, NY
$340K
Chappaqua, NY
$40K
Rockville Ctr, NY
$26K
Northfield, IL
$10K

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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.

Jewish Federation of Greater19 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation for Greater13 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc13 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipients

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 $10,000 -- 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 Georgia.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Halpern-Oppenheimer Family's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 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: 1440 Spring Street Nw, Atlanta, GA, 30309.

EIN 58-2512118 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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