· Private foundation
Bar-El Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Israel Fund | $4,000 |
| Adat Shalom | $3,850 |
| Jewish Family Service LA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Immigrant Defenders League | $2,000 |
| Hand-in-Hand Jewish-Arab Ed | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HDF | $1,500 |
| HIAS | $1,500 |
| LA Regional Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Adat Shalom | $1,000 |
| CLUE | $1,000 |
| Adat Shalom | $820 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Berkeley Student Cooperative | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +46%
- WFWESTSIDE FOOD BANK2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +294%
- HIHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
- HFHabonim-Dror foundationone grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The abrahamic reunion works to build sustainable peace with diverse faith communities in the holy land. we foster harmony by exploring common abrahamic values in order to create deep and lasting connections between people.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds TIYYA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Immigrant Defenders Law Center ↗
- Who funds Sharias Closet ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY STUDENT COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Institute of Jewish Education ↗
- Who funds Southern California Family Mediation Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bar-El Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bar-El Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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