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Arcadia Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $576k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL USA | $1,500,000 |
| JEWISH SILICON VALLEY | $774,970 |
| OSHMAN FAMILY JCC | $500,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR E | $300,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $101,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCE | $100,000 |
| SYMPHONY SAN JOSE | $90,000 |
| SOUTH PENINSULA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $75,000 |
| CONGREGATION SINAI | $69,000 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| IMADI INC | $43,000 |
| THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| THE SHALEM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OFOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +5%
- ASALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $305k · revenue +9%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC3× · 2020–2023 · $299k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICALone grant, 2021 · $333k
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICYone grant, 2019 · $202k · revenue +4%
- CHCHABAD HOUSE-ALMADENone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Israel scholarship education foundation's mission is to narrowisrael's socio-economic gap through higher education. its unique methodology combines scholarship support for gifted young people fromdisadvantaged backgrounds with community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services and the most unlike its peers is Aishel Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
- Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds South Peninsula Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEIRA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds Imadi Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH STUDY NETWORK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Silicon Valley · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · Koret Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Sigmund Foundation Inc · Ruth Reinhard Fletcher Charitable Foundation · The Liora & Levy Gerzberg Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arcadia Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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