How much did Birthright Israel Foundation grant in FY2017?

Birthright Israel Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $79,479,396 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is Birthright Israel Foundation based?

Birthright Israel Foundation is based in NY.

Birthright Israel Foundation

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· Public charity

Birthright Israel Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support educational trips to israel for young adults.

$79M

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$200k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

$10k–50k35 grants · $350k
$50k–250k1 grant · $200k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$71M

Total assets

Largest grants

The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta$200,000
Hillel at Drexel University$10,000
USC Hillel$10,000
Hillel at the University of Vermont$10,000
Delaware Hillel$10,000
Virginia Tech Hillel$10,000
Ohio State University Hillel$10,000
University of Central Florida Hillel$10,000
Santa Barbara Hillel$10,000
Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh$10,000
Hillel of Colorado$10,000
Cornell Hillel$10,000
Hillel at the University of Connecticut$10,000
Boston University Hillel$10,000
Hillel 818$10,000

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Hillel At Florida International University

Enrich the lives of jewish students

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Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life

Hillel of Buffalo serves the jewish community at the NYS University at Buffalo and encourages the participation of jewish students and faculty from all area colleges and universities. It is Hillel of Buffalo's mission to foster jewish…

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Hillel the Foundation of Jewish

Cincinnati Hillel enriches the lives and strengthens the Jewish identity of Jewish college students in Greater Cincinnati and builds bridges to Jewish life after college.

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Hillel At the University of

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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The Center for Jewish Campus Life Inc

Hillel at stanford provides a welcoming jewish home on campus for all students, as well as a bridge to the broader stanford community, fulfilling a wide range of students' religious, cultural, social, and emotional needs, and providing…

Religion

Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Providing social and educational activities in order to create a community for Jewish students at Sonoma State University. Primary programs include celebrating Jewish holidays as a community, holding monthly Sabbath dinners (COVID…

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Houston Hillel

Enriching the lives of Jewish students and twentysomethings.

Religion

American University Hillel Inc

To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.

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Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

KU Hillel's mission is to connect Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, to inspire and equip the next generation of Jewish leaders and to build a thriving Jewish community on campus. We are developing Jewish adults. We are…

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Hunter Hillel Foundation

Enhancing Jewish Life on Campus

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Hillel of San Luis Obispo

Enriching the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.

Religion

Hillel Foundation at Miami University

Enriching the lives of Jewish students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillel Jewish University Center and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Federation of Greater. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% 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%0/36

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,529

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.

03the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

25/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$290,000Philanthropy$210,000Religion$30,000Civil Rights$10,000Education$10,000

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.

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.

Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus LifeDC65.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Maccabee Task Force Foundation · Seed the Dream Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Israel on Campus Coalition · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jewish Federation of Greater · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Chabad on Campus International Inc · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc

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 organisation Birthright Israel 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.

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5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Jewish Enrichment Center Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261753729 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Jewish Enrichment Center Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Birthright Israel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Birthright Israel Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Birthright Israel Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Birthright Israel Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Birthright Israel Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Birthright Israel Foundation?

More from the funding graph