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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.

$88M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.6MReligion$3.3MInternational$1.1MCivil Rights$636kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kHealth$91kHuman Services$10kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $4,364,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,344,611 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $83,980,411 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $794k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Friends of Unit 699: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC
FL

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.

Middle East and North Africa$84M · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: See Attached Listin

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$255k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: See attached listin

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 6 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$6.5M
$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyInternationalReligionEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ZO
    ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $600k · revenue +27%
  • FC
    Friedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $350k · revenue +33% · 31% of their budget
  • OM
    OPENDOR MEDIA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $138k
  • RI
    Rachel Imeinu Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +73%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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4
American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

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

International
5
University of Judaism Foundation
—
6
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
7
Sherit Isroel
—
8
American Friends of the Citizens Empowerment Center of Israel
Public Benefit
9
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
10
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
12
American Friends of Ohel Bas Zion Inc
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION I: $4,509,700 · PhilanthropyFLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION I+3 more: $206,000 · PhilanthropyYAD AHAVA FOUNDATION: $2,450,000 · ReligionYAD AHAVA FOUNDATIONZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $600,000 · ReligionZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA+1 more: $100,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELON MOREH: $400,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $300,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $52,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SAFETY CO: $500,000 · Crime & LegalIndividual grant recipient: $138,000 · OtherChabad Aventura: $135,000 · OtherHatzala Emergency Air Unit: $100,000 · OtherDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $23,014 · OtherFriedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc: $350,000 · Education+1 more: $7,700 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $91,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$4,715,700Religion$3,150,000International$752,000Crime & Legal$500,000Other$416,014Education$357,700Health$91,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION I: $4,509,700 over 3y, 65% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $600,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SAFETY CO: $500,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELON MOREH: $400,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetFriedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JUSTIFI INC: $116,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRachel Imeinu Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFACES OF AMERICA: $7,700 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Central Fund of Israel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Fund of Israel. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 77%
  • Faces of America: 77% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Central Fund of Israel 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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