The DDS Foundation concentrates large, targeted gifts to major Jewish institutions, prioritizing Jewish higher education, communal infrastructure, and emergency medical support for Israel. Most funding is directed to a small set of repeat grantees—primarily Yeshiva University and UJA Federation—indicating a focus on sustaining established Jewish organizations in New York and Israel. The foundation’s grants blend institutional support for education and communal services with explicit backing for lifesaving emergency response in Israel.
The DDS Foundation C/O Daniel Schwartz gives at a level that supports large institutional commitments, including three $1,000,000 grants to Yeshiva University in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That repeated support points to a funder that favors durable relationships over one-off gifts, especially in Jewish education and communal infrastructure. The foundation also backed UJA Federation with $750,000 in 2024 and $500,000 in 2025, reinforcing its role as a major supporter of New York Jewish communal life. Its recent grants show a clear pattern of backing established organizations serving Jewish communities in New York and Israel. Friends of United Hatzalah received $500,000 in 2025 and earlier support in 2023 and 2024, while Barnard College received $250,000 in 2023 and 2024 for liberal arts education for promising young women. Other awards include American Committee For Shaare Zedek, Ramaz, and Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, which together reflect a portfolio centered on Jewish education, religious life, and emergency response. The foundation’s giving is concentrated and recurring, with many grants going to the same organizations across multiple years.
Jewish higher education is a core area of support. The foundation gave $1,000,000 to Yeshiva University in 2025 for “to bring wisdom to life through all that is taught,” following the same amount in 2023 and 2024. It also supports religious Zionist youth education and community building. Bnei Akiva of North America received $150,000 in 2024 “to provide high quality religious Zionist education and programs for Jewish youth along with their families and communities,” and Bnei Akiva received $75,000 in 2023 for the same purpose. Special needs education appears in the grant list as well. American Friends of Shalva received $100,000 in 2025 and $100,000 in 2024 to provide “a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children.” Food redistribution in Israel is another visible theme: American Friends of Leket Israel received $150,000 in 2024 for the safe collection and distribution of surplus nutritious food in Israel, plus $100,000 in 2025 for special needs children support.
Typical grants cluster around mid-sized and major institutional awards: the 25th percentile is $10,000, the median is $25,000, and the 75th percentile is $90,000. The recent list also shows repeated seven-figure and six-figure gifts, indicating a split between smaller awards and large anchor grants. Recurrence is a defining feature: several recipients appear across multiple years, including Yeshiva University, UJA Federation, Friends of United Hatzalah, Barnard College, American Friends of Shalva, Etzion Foundation, and American Friends of Leket Israel. The foundation does not fund individuals and makes no program-related investments, pointing to direct grantmaking to organizations.
$2.8M
$33.4M
$4M
$3.4M
Most grants fall between $10K and $90K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$90K
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Dds Foundation C/O Daniel Schwartz.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 95 | $9.4M | 97.9% |
| 2 | Israel |
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Highly concentrated: a small number of very large grants, recurring multi-grant support to the same institutions, with choices favoring established Jewish organizations and Israel-focused relief/services.
Notable grantees: Yeshiva University, UJA-Federation, Friends of United Hatzalah
Giving is heavily concentrated in New York, which accounts for 71% of grants and is the top state by grant count. The recipient list is overwhelmingly U.S.-based, with 95 grants to U.S. organizations and 2 to Israel. New York City appears frequently, including Yeshiva University, UJA Federation, Friends of United Hatzalah, Barnard College, and Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. Other named recipient locations include Teaneck, NJ, and Atlantic Beach, NY. The small number of non-U.S. grants aligns with the foundation’s Israel-related support.
The grant list centers on Jewish institutions and services: Yeshiva University, UJA Federation, Friends of United Hatzalah, Barnard College, American Friends of Leket Israel, Bnei Akiva of North America, American Friends of Shalva, and Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun. The stated purposes include Jewish higher education, communal infrastructure, emergency response, special needs support, and religious Zionist youth programming.
Yes. Yeshiva University received $1,000,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025. UJA Federation received $694,885 in 2023, $750,000 in 2024, and $500,000 in 2025. Friends of United Hatzalah, American Friends of Shalva, Etzion Foundation, and American Friends of Leket Israel also appear in multiple years.
The foundation’s grant-size distribution is $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $25,000 at the median, and $90,000 at the 75th percentile. The recent grants list also includes much larger anchor gifts, including multiple $1,000,000 awards and several six-figure grants.
New York is the top state by grant count, and 71% of grants go to recipients in the HQ state. The recipient country distribution is overwhelmingly U.S.-based, with 95 grants in the United States and 2 in Israel.
The record shows Jewish higher education through Yeshiva University, New York Jewish communal support through UJA Federation, emergency medical response through Friends of United Hatzalah, religious Zionist youth programming through Bnei Akiva of North America, special needs support through American Friends of Shalva, and food redistribution in Israel through American Friends of Leket Israel.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
| 2 |
| $23K |
2.1% |
Recipient country reflects the grantee's headquarters per IRS 990-PF and Schedule F filings, not the program's implementation country.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University | New York, NY | $1,000,000 | 2025 | To bring wisdom to life through all that is taught. |
| UJA Federation | New York, NY | $500,000 | 2025 | TO care for Jewish people everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds, respond to crises to shape our Jewish future. |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $500,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| The Religious Zionist Movement | new york, NY | $100,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| American Friends of Shalva | new york, NY | $100,000 | 2025 | TO provide a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children. |
| American Friends of Leket Israel | teaneck, NJ | $100,000 | 2025 | TO provide a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children. |
| Etzion Foundation | teaneck, NJ | $80,000 | 2025 | to foster development of Jewish education and provide a foundation for Jewish leadership. |
| Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun | New York, NY | $62,800 | 2025 | TO FOSTER AMONG ITS MEMBERSHIP A LOVE OF GOD AND AN ABIDING COMMITMENT TO HALAKHAH AND MITZVOT. |
| American Friends of ITIM | NEW YORK, NY | $50,000 | 2025 | TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION. |
| Tzohar Israel Foundation | WOODMERE, NY | $50,000 | 2025 | to bridge the gaps between religious and secular Jewish people in Israel. |
| Sinai School | Paramus, NJ | $25,000 | 2025 | Jewish schools for children with learning or developmental disabilities whose needs cannot be met in a regular education setting. |
| Sixpoint Inc | new york, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek | new york, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| Better Future For Israel | TEANECK, NJ | $20,000 | 2025 | TO STRENGTHEN ISRAEL'S FUTURE. |
| Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach | New York, NY | $18,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Amutat Beit Knesset) | new york, NY | $18,000 | 2025 | TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL. |
| PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Atarei Torah) | new york, NY | $18,000 | 2025 | TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL. |
| Emunah Women of America | NEW YORK, NY | $10,000 | 2025 | TO support education, social welfare programs aiming to strengthen the Jewish family, advancing women's status, and Holocaust and anti-bias education in Israel and the United States. |
| Sefaria Inc | new york, NY | $10,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro | new york, NY | $10,000 | 2025 | TO raise funds and public awareness in the United STATES FOR BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO. |
| Chabad at Columbia Inc | new york, NY | $10,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies | new york, NY | $5,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| AMIT Children Inc | new york, NY | $5,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| KJ Benevolent Fund | new york, NY | $5,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| American Gives Inc | new york, NY | $5,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| American Friends of Nishmat Inc | new york, NY | $5,000 | 2025 | General Support |
| PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Kaleidoscope Program) | new york, NY | $3,600 | 2025 | TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL. |
| Central Fund for Israel | Cedarhurst, NY | $3,600 | 2025 | General Support |
| Chaya Israel Foundation | new york, NY | $1,800 | 2025 | General Support |
| PASS-THROUGH CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION | DALLAs, TX | $174 | 2025 | GENERAL |
| Yeshiva University | New York, NY | $1,000,000 | 2024 | To bring wisdom to life through all that is taught. |
| UJA Federation | New York, NY | $750,000 | 2024 | TO care for Jewish people everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds, respond to crises to shape our Jewish future. |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2024 | to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women. |
| Bnei Akiva OF North America | New York, NY | $150,000 | 2024 | To provide high quality religious Zionist education and programs for Jewish youth along with their families and communities. |
| American Friends of Leket Israel | teaneck, NJ | $150,000 | 2024 | to lead the safe, effective and efficient collection and distribution of surplus nutritious food in Israel to those who need it. |
| American Friends of Shalva | new york, NY | $100,000 | 2024 | TO provide a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children. |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2024 | TO SUPPORT THE LIFESAVING EFFORTS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL. |
| Etzion Foundation | teaneck, NJ | $80,000 | 2024 | to foster development of Jewish education and provide a foundation for Jewish leadership. |
| Tzohar Israel Foundation | WOODMERE, NY | $50,000 | 2024 | to bridge the gaps between religious and secular Jewish people in Israel. |
| Project Tabs | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2024 | TO SUPPORT COMPANIES THAT ARE NEW TO THE US MARKET, HELPING HTEM TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES AND BECOME SUCCESSFUL. |
| PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Mercaz Telem Jerusalem) | New York, NY | $35,000 | 2024 | TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL. |
| Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun | New York, NY | $27,400 | 2024 | TO FOSTER AMONG ITS MEMBERSHIP A LOVE OF GOD AND AN ABIDING COMMITMENT TO HALAKHAH AND MITZVOT. |
| Sinai School | Paramus, NJ | $25,000 | 2024 | Jewish schools for children with learning or developmental disabilities whose needs cannot be met in a regular education setting. |
| Yeshiva Maale Gilboa USA Inc | new york, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | to emphasize a commitment to rigorous Torah study, intellectual openness, intellectual disagreement and social consciousness. |
| American Friends of ITIM | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION. |
| Orayta | Boynton Beach, FL | $18,000 | 2024 | Inspirational and comprehensive approach to Torah; combining depth of Torah thought with rigorous text study. |
| PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Restart Global) | new york, NY | $18,000 | 2024 | TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL. |
| PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Amutat Beit Knesset Ohe | new york, NY | $18,000 | 2024 | TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL. |
| American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro | new york, NY | $10,000 | 2024 | TO raise funds and public awareness in the United States for Beit Issie Shapiro. |
| The Good People Fund | MILLBURN, NJ | $10,000 | 2024 | TO provide financial support, guidance and mentoring to charitable activities of modest proportions. |
UJA Federation
$500,000TO care for Jewish people everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds, respond to crises to shape our Jewish future.
The Religious Zionist Movement
$100,000General Support
American Friends of Shalva
$100,000TO provide a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children.
TO provide a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children.
to foster development of Jewish education and provide a foundation for Jewish leadership.
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
$62,800TO FOSTER AMONG ITS MEMBERSHIP A LOVE OF GOD AND AN ABIDING COMMITMENT TO HALAKHAH AND MITZVOT.
TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION.
to bridge the gaps between religious and secular Jewish people in Israel.
Sinai School
$25,000Jewish schools for children with learning or developmental disabilities whose needs cannot be met in a regular education setting.
American Committee for Shaare Zedek
$25,000General Support
Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach
$18,000General Support
TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL.
TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL.
TO support education, social welfare programs aiming to strengthen the Jewish family, advancing women's status, and Holocaust and anti-bias education in Israel and the United States.
Sefaria Inc
$10,000General Support
TO raise funds and public awareness in the United STATES FOR BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO.
Chabad at Columbia Inc
$10,000General Support
KJ Benevolent Fund
$5,000General Support
American Gives Inc
$5,000General Support
TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL.
Chaya Israel Foundation
$1,800General Support
PASS-THROUGH CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
$174GENERAL
TO care for Jewish people everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds, respond to crises to shape our Jewish future.
to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women.
Bnei Akiva OF North America
$150,000To provide high quality religious Zionist education and programs for Jewish youth along with their families and communities.
American Friends of Leket Israel
$150,000to lead the safe, effective and efficient collection and distribution of surplus nutritious food in Israel to those who need it.
TO provide a therapeutic and supportive environment that advances special needs children.
TO SUPPORT THE LIFESAVING EFFORTS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL.
to foster development of Jewish education and provide a foundation for Jewish leadership.
to bridge the gaps between religious and secular Jewish people in Israel.
Project Tabs
$50,000TO SUPPORT COMPANIES THAT ARE NEW TO THE US MARKET, HELPING HTEM TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES AND BECOME SUCCESSFUL.
PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Mercaz Telem Jerusalem)
$35,000TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL.
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
$27,400TO FOSTER AMONG ITS MEMBERSHIP A LOVE OF GOD AND AN ABIDING COMMITMENT TO HALAKHAH AND MITZVOT.
Sinai School
$25,000Jewish schools for children with learning or developmental disabilities whose needs cannot be met in a regular education setting.
Yeshiva Maale Gilboa USA Inc
$25,000to emphasize a commitment to rigorous Torah study, intellectual openness, intellectual disagreement and social consciousness.
TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION.
Inspirational and comprehensive approach to Torah; combining depth of Torah thought with rigorous text study.
PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Restart Global)
$18,000TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL.
PEF Israel Endowment Fund (Amutat Beit Knesset Ohe
$18,000TO SUPPORT THE DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS TO SELECTED AND APPROVED CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL.
TO raise funds and public awareness in the United States for Beit Issie Shapiro.
TO provide financial support, guidance and mentoring to charitable activities of modest proportions.