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Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$358k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.

International$1.3MPhilanthropy$965kHuman Services$485kReligion$200kEducation$76kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$25kCrime & Legal$25kOther$628k
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $493k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $694k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITCHON LEV INC$357,953
FRIENDS OF IRGUN NECHEI ZAHAL$336,363
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$214,772
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STAND WITH US$100,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AKA HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$100,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC)$80,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$75,000
NETANYA FOUNDATION$71,591
CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM - ANCHORAGE$71,590
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$60,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC$60,000
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC (JFNA)$50,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$50,000
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOCIAL FINANCE ISRAEL: $30k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ORGANIZATION: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $215k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $75k → 10%EXCEL ALASKA INC: $25k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 10%CHILDCARE CONNECTIONS DBA THREAD: $25k → 10%CHILDCARE CONNECTIONS DBA THREAD: $25k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
DC
HI

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 15 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$2.4M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

87%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    3× · 2022–2025 · $315k · revenue +70%
  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +58%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2024 · $96k
  • AL
    ANCHORAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $49k · revenue +32%
  • SF
    Southcentral Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
2
Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…

Education
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Joint Israel

To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):

International
5
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
United Israel Appeal Inc

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…

International
8
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
9
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
10
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
11
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
12
Jewish Agency for Israel - North American Council

The jewish agency for israel - north american council (the organization"), was organized to work with and in support of nonprofit organizations in israel active in the fields of aliyah (immigration) and absorption; service to vulnerable…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr13%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
14%
11,648/85,222

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.

05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
14/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Pitchon Lev Inc — $507,953 · InternationalPitchon Lev IncFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC — $386,363 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INCISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $150,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $110,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $80,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution …Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc — $75,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Alaska IncPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $435,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS I…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $225,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION …THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $155,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NO…BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $85,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATI…+3 more — $65,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $140,000 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEAR…THE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC — $96,591 · OtherTHE NETANYA FOUNDATI…CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM — $96,590 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SH…UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA — $95,792 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKACONGREGATION OR HATZAFON — $50,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OR HATZ…ANCHORAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $49,168 · OtherANCHORAGE LIBRARY FO…ALASKA JEWISH CAMPUS — $25,000 · OtherSTAR INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $25,000 · OtherTEEN RELIEF MISSIONS INC — $25,000 · OtherSouthcentral Foundation — $25,000 · OtherAlaska Legal Services Corporation — $25,000 · OtherCatholic Social Services — $314,772 · Human ServicesCatholic Socia…Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread — $50,000 · Human ServicesChild Care Con…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $40,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE…Social Finance Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesSocial Finance…American Friends of IDF Widows and Orphans Organization Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesEXCEL ALASKA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $200,000 · ReligionIsrael 21c — $76,000 · EducationFood Bank of Alaska — $75,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$1,309,316Philanthropy$965,000Other$678,141Human Services$484,772Religion$200,000Education$76,000Food & Nutrition$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPitchon Lev Inc — $507,953 over 3y, 18% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $435,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC — $386,363 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $314,772 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $155,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETANYA FOUNDATION INC — $96,591 over 1y, 42% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIsrael 21c — $76,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFood Bank of Alaska — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChild Care Connection Inc DBA Thread — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANCHORAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $49,168 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouthcentral Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEL ALASKA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Legal Services Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …The Carr Foundation I…Valley Hospital Assoc…Gottstein Family Foun…United Way of Anchora…Alaska Children's Tru…Alaska Native Tribal …Providence Health & S…Ima FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Jewish Community Fede…
Rasmuson FoundationAK29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Gottstein Family Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · Alaska Children's Trust · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Ima Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barney and Rachel Gottstein Caritable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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