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Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies

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.

$626k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$1.7MArts & Culture$501kHuman Services$350kInternational$345kEmployment$230kReligion$145kEducation$95kCivil Rights$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $580k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$200,000
JEWISH FILM INSTITUTE$150,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE$130,116
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$50,000
OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$25,000
BERKELEY HILLEL$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 8%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $50k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $50k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $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.

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.

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.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsReligionOther

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

  • JV
    JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE
    2× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +13%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE ON AGING
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +121%
  • BO
    BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -68%
  • TA
    The American Himalayan Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -42%
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +50%

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
Jewish Federation of the Sacra

To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.

Philanthropy
2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Sandler 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…

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

—
6
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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7
Jewish Community Foundation of the West

To enhance charitable giving; facilitate philanthropy both locally and worldwide; and build permanent financial resources to strengthen organizations and programs that serve the Jewish families of Northern California

Philanthropy
8
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
11
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

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…

Philanthropy
12
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights

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 Institute On Aging. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr20%33%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr12%58%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
11%
4,178/36,841

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 24 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $1,705,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSU…Jewish Film Institute — $310,000 · Arts & CultureJewish Film Inst…THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY…Maine Jewish Film Festival — $55,617 · Arts & CultureMaine Jewish Fil…TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE — $230,116 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIO…Bay Area Jewish Healing Center — $100,000 · OtherBay Area Jewis…BERKELEY HILLEL — $60,000 · OtherBERKELEY HILLE…ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP RIO…SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC — $20,000 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT …The American Himalayan Foundation — $75,000 · InternationalThe America…American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $70,000 · InternationalAmerican Fr…INSTITUTE ON AGING — $100,000 · Human ServicesBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $50,000 · Human ServicesSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $70,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $30,000 · Civil RightsREBOOT INC — $25,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,705,000Arts & Culture$500,617Other$445,116International$345,000Human Services$250,000Education$120,000Civil Rights$30,000Religion$25,000

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $1,705,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Film Institute — $310,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE — $230,116 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Jewish Healing Center — $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL — $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival — $55,617 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBOOT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAGNES MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSan Francisco Performances Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Jewish Community Fede…Koret FoundationJohn Pritzker Family …Lisa & Douglas Goldma…Alexander M & June L …Howard and Irene Levi…The San Francisco Fou…Lisa Stone Pritzker F…Ralph & Marsha Guggen…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA26.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Koret Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Alexander M & June L Maisin Foundation · Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 24 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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