· Public charity
Central Fund of Israel
Established in 1979 as a volunteer charity with the motto what you give is what you get, CFI was designed by its founders, Arthur and Hadassah Marcus, to enable one hundred percent of donations to reach charities in Israel.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $4,364,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $88,344,611 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,980,411 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $794k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yad Ahava | $2,450,000 |
| Flora amnd Morris Mizel Found | $1,113,700 |
| Zionist Organization America | $200,000 |
| Chabad Aventura | $135,000 |
| American Friends of Justifi | $116,000 |
| Hatzala Emergency Air Unit | $100,000 |
| Friends of Sheba Medical Cent | $91,000 |
| One Israel Fund | $52,000 |
| Giving Back Fund | $50,000 |
| American Friends of Elon More | $50,000 |
| Avodas Yisrael | $6,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $84M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: See Attached Listin
Stated purpose: See attached listin
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- ZOZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA3× · 2022–2025 · $600k · revenue +27%
- FCFriedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $350k · revenue +33% · 31% of their budget
- OMOPENDOR MEDIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INCone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $138k
- RIRachel Imeinu Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +73%
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Support of religious schools in Israel
Educating members and the general public regarding various issues related to american foreign policy by publishing educational materials and holding conferences
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yad Ahava Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation I. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 FLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds YAD AHAVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SAFETY CO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELON MOREH ↗
- Who funds Friedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JUSTIFI INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds Rachel Imeinu Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC ↗
- Who funds FACES OF AMERICA ↗
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.
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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 Central Fund of Israel 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Faces of America — 77% of income from government
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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