About Beren Sea Foundation
The Beren Sea Foundation concentrates its giving into a very small number of high-dollar grants that advance two clear priorities: combating hate and supporting Israeli/Jewish communal initiatives. Most of its funding goes to repeat, multi-award relationships with national-scale organizations rather than many small local nonprofits. The foundation favors strategic, general-support grants to organizations that can deploy resources at scale.
Focus Areas
Anti-hate / counter-extremism initiatives (national-scale programs addressing hate speech and related harms)Israeli regional and Jewish communal development — specifically the Beren-Galila initiative in IsraelLarge flexible/general operating support to established nonprofit organizations
Who They Fund
students (performing arts students)Jewish community members and faith institutionsresearchers/scientific labsarts and cultural organizationsnonprofit organizations engaged in advocacy/fundraising
About Beren Sea Foundation
Beren Sea Foundation’s recent giving is defined by two large, repeated commitments: Combat Hate Foundation and Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc. Those relationships account for the foundation’s highest-dollar awards across 2023, 2024, and 2025, with multi-million-dollar grants directed to general support and the Beren-Galila Initiative. That pattern suggests a funder that prefers concentrated support for a small set of organizations rather than broad, dispersed grantmaking. The foundation also makes smaller grants that point to additional interests in Jewish communal life, campus-based Jewish engagement, and selected civic or cultural projects. Recent awards include support for Ahavath Achim Congregation, Penn Hillel, Mid-kansas Jewish Federation, and Wichita Community Tennis Inc. The recipient mix shows a blend of local Kansas institutions and organizations in New York and Pennsylvania, but the funding volume is heavily weighted toward a handful of repeat recipients. Across the recent grants list, the common thread is flexibility. Several awards are labeled general support, while others are tied to a specific initiative, event, or endowment. The result is a grantmaking profile built around sustained backing for established groups that can use substantial funding at scale.
What Beren Sea Foundation Funds
In anti-hate work, the foundation gave $3,592,222 in 2024, $3,125,000 in 2023, and $2,775,000 in 2025 to Combat Hate Foundation for general support. That recurring commitment is the clearest signal in the recent record. For Israeli and Jewish communal development, it awarded $1,100,000 in 2023 and again in 2025, plus $1,098,334 in 2024, to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc for the Beren-Galila Initiative. The foundation also backs Jewish community institutions in Kansas and Pennsylvania. It gave $85,000 in 2025 and $50,000 in 2024 to Penn Hillel for general support, and it made multiple awards to Mid-kansas Jewish Federation for Jewish Heritage Month-related support. Its portfolio also reaches into campus arts and research. The foundation gave $125,000 to the University of Pennsylvania for student performing arts facilities and $51,000 in 2025 to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for the Richard Wong Lab.
How Beren Sea Foundation Gives
Beren Sea Foundation’s typical grant size sits at $25,000 at the 25th percentile, $55,940 at the median, and $125,000 at the 75th percentile. Even so, the overall record is skewed upward by a few very large awards in the multi-million-dollar range. The foundation repeatedly funds the same organizations across multiple years, especially Combat Hate Foundation, Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, Wichita Community Tennis Inc, and Mid-kansas Jewish Federation. That repeat pattern points to sustained relationships rather than one-time awards. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. The recent grants list also shows a mix of general support, initiative-based support, and gifts tied to events, endowments, and travel.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$4.2M
Total Assets
$11.4M
Total Revenue
$15.1M
Total Expenses
$11.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $25K and $125K, with a median of $56K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$56K
75th Percentile
$125K
Geographic Reach
National5 states funded
Intensidad de financiamiento
BajaAlta
Sede
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