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Chortek Weisman Family Foundation

To conduct or support activities for the benefit of the jewish community foundation of san diego.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of Chortek Weisman Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Silicon Valley, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Chortek Weisman Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 52 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
5
’18
5
’20
3
’21
8
’22
7
’23
52
’24
15
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Human Services$2.5MPhilanthropy$951kEducation$769kReligion$497kInternational$205kYouth Development$185kCrime & Legal$120kHousing & Shelter$108kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k46 grants · $981k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $893k
  • $250k+1 grant · $272k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO$272,000
LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS$195,000
SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY$180,087
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY$95,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$80,000
HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO$72,715
PIVOTAL$65,000
NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$55,000
SHINE TOGETHER INC$50,000
KIDS TURN SAN DIEGO$50,000
HOME START INC$50,000
JEWISH SILICON VALLEY$45,000
DOWNTOWN STREETS INC$40,000
THE UNITY CARE GROUP$40,000
FREE TO THRIVE$40,000
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, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $40k → 8%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $20k → 11%HOMEMORE PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $36k → 14%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $25k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC: $25k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $55k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $1.0M → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $95k → 8%KIDS TURN SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $45k → 8%KIDS TURN SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%BILL WILSON CENTER: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $20k → 11%WALDEN ENVIRONMENT (WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES): $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $36k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $25k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 11%SHARIA'S CLOSET: $15k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $20k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $25k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $15k → 11%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $30k → 11%CHRISTIE'S PLACE: $20k → 11%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$2.3M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentInternationalHealthOther

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

  • LF
    LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $593k · revenue +21%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $561k · revenue +51%
  • HO
    HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO
    8× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHABAD HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +11%
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -56%

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
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay

Guided by jewish values and in collaboration with the diverse communities we serve, jfcs east bay contributes to the resilience of communities, families, and individuals through advocacy and comprehensive support services at every stage of…

Health
4
Jewish Family Service

Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

Human Services
5
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc

To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…

Human Services
6
Hannahs Family Center

Hannahs Family Center envisions a world where strong families enable children to thrive and communities to prosper. Since 1993, we have helped San Diego families navigate significant adverse changes, trauma and loss. As experts in…

Education
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Family and Children's Services

Jewish family and children's services exists to provide professional and volunteer services for the purposes of developing, restoring, and maintaining the competency of families and individuals of all ages. traditionally, jewish family and…

Human Services
9
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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10
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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11
Jvs Socal

Jvs socal is a california nonsectarian nonprofit serving nearly 30,000 clients per year offering hope and opportunity to a diverse community through job training, mentoring and education, combined with expert career guidance and employer…

Employment
12
Dreams for Change Inc

Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is J Leaders. 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 backsteadyEarly Childhood Care and Ed…Member Recreation ClubsUnion and Employee Health T…Charter SchoolsResidential Community Assoc…Faith-Based International M…Community Health CentersYouth Sports ProgramsHigher Education 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%15%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr11%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr11%33%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/67
the rest of the field
13%
3,241/25,171

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

63 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. 63 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
29/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $593,000 · OtherLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $360,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO — $310,961 · OtherHILLEL OF SAN DIEGOFRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH SAN DIEGO — $136,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHABAD LUBAVITCH SAN DIEGOPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $115,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSHEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO — $75,000 · Other+24 more — $553,250 · Other+24 moreJEWISH SILICON VALLEY — $1,095,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SILICON VALLEYJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $145,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VA…Kids Turn San Diego — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITY CARE GROUP — $65,000 · Human ServicesKINDNESS INITIATIVE — $61,000 · Human Services+15 more — $366,000 · Human Services+15 moreSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY — $560,921 · EducationSAN DIEGO JE…INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $28,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $566,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMU…+2 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $95,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $60,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $25,000 · InternationalJ LEADERS — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHER INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDowntown Streets Inc — $40,000 · EmploymentTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EmploymentURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $10,000 · Employment
Other$2,143,211Human Services$1,807,000Education$613,921Philanthropy$591,000International$180,000Youth Development$175,000Employment$70,000

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 SILICON VALLEY — $1,095,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $593,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $566,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY — $560,921 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $360,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO — $310,961 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $145,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $115,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO — $75,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetJ LEADERS — $75,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetKids Turn San Diego — $75,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE UNITY CARE GROUP — $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKINDNESS INITIATIVE — $61,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $55,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOME START INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALMADEN VALLEY COUNSELING SERVICE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFREE TO THRIVE — $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTransFamily Support Services — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDestination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Seva Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT CUBED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPursuit Of Excellence — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRise Up Industries — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIES PLACE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKAVOD CHARTER SCHOOL — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDoors of Change — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Foun…The San Diego Foundat…The Cushman FoundationThe Parker FoundationLeichtag FoundationPrice Philanthropies …Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…David C Copley Founda…The Country FriendsAlliance Healthcare F…The Conrad Prebys Fou…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA49.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Country Friends · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Conrad Prebys 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 Chortek Weisman Family 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%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chortek Weisman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chortek Weisman Family 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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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