Snider Foundation
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About Snider Foundation
The Snider Foundation concentrates its giving on institution-building through large, unrestricted operating support grants, favoring either family-directed philanthropic vehicles or new higher-education ventures. Its grants suggest a priority on sustaining organizational capacity rather than project-level funding, with sizeable gifts to a small number of recipients.
Focus Areas
Family philanthropic vehicle / grantmaking foundation support (The Tina Snider Foundation)Start-up higher education institutions / university building (University of Austin)Large-scale operating support to institutional grantees
Who They Fund
Jewish communities and Jewish-serving organizationspeople with or at risk for celiac disease and related inflammatory bowel conditionsniche occupational groups (veterinarians, truckers)students and scholars (MA programs, fellowships, scholarships)cultural institutions and museum staff/curators
About Snider Foundation
The Snider Foundation’s giving is marked by large operating grants to institutions that build capacity in Jewish life, higher education, civil-liberties advocacy, and related infrastructure. One of its clearest signals is support for family-directed philanthropic vehicles: it gave $2,142,035 to The Tina Snider Foundation in 2025 for operating support. Another defining commitment is to new higher-education institutions, shown by a $1,000,000 operating grant to the University of Austin in 2023. The foundation also backs organizations working on antisemitism monitoring and response, as seen in its support for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Israel on Campus Coalition, and the Lawfare Project. Cultural and community institutions appear as well, including the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and USC Shoah Foundation. Across these awards, the pattern is not project-by-project dispersion but sustained support for organizational strength, institutional formation, and mission continuity. The mix of grantees suggests attention to both broad public-policy infrastructure and niche community-serving organizations, with several awards tied to operating budgets rather than restricted program lines.
What Snider Foundation Funds
In antisemitism prevention and response, The Snider Foundation gave $535,000 in 2024 to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the Countering Ideological Extremism Program, Domestic Antisemitism Project, and operating support. It also gave $313,412 in 2025 to Israel on Campus Coalition for operating support and AEN Administrators Against Antisemitism, and $375,000 in 2024 to The Lawfare Project for End Jew Hatred. The foundation supports Jewish communal security infrastructure too: Secure Community Network received $250,000 in 2024 for the Philadelphia Security Initiative and operating support. Outside that area, the foundation funded higher education with a $250,000 2025 grant to Northeastern University for capacity building for the Global Resilience Institute. It also backed cultural preservation and public history through grants to the USC Shoah Foundation and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.
How Snider Foundation Gives
Grant sizes skew toward substantial institutional awards rather than small project checks: the distribution sits at p25 $7,500, median $25,000, and p75 $65,167, but the recent-grants list includes multiple six-figure gifts. The pattern leans heavily toward operating support, with many awards explicitly labeled that way. Recipients also repeat across years, including Foundation for Defense of Democracies, The Lawfare Project, Institute for Justice, Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, and Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The foundation is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it also funds individuals. Its recent portfolio shows continuity in multi-year institutional support rather than one-off project grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$140M
Total Assets
$1.3M
Total Revenue
$6.6M
Total Expenses
$141.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $65K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$65K
Geographic Reach
National30 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Snider Foundation Funds
Top 4 recipient countries by grant volume for Snider Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 606 | $359.3M | 98.9% |
| 2 | Germany | 3 |
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