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Colen Family Foundation

Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.

$495k
Granted FY2021
18
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of Colen Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Colen Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $451k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.9MReligion$854kInternational$569kHealth$285kEducation$193kEnvironment$154kFood & Nutrition$130kRecreation & Sports$53kOther$0
02FY2021 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $450,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $494,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,900 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$80,000
MOISHE HOUSE$45,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$40,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE$36,000
CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$30,000
BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT UCB$27,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$25,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INST$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$18,000
ISRAEL21C$18,000
MOISHE HOUSE$18,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 9%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 44% of Colen Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Colen Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 19 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

19
5

Total granted

$2.3M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-39%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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InternationalHealthReligionEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $250k · revenue +42%
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +14%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2018–2022 · $156k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • JS
    JEWISH SENIOR LIVING GROUP
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -94%
  • SLINGSHOT FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -39%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +53%
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.

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University of Judaism Foundation
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2
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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3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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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…

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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
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Sherit Isroel
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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
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The Jerusalem Connection
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United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Project Koru. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $1,763,617 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO TH…+2 more: $21,500 · PhilanthropyBERKELEY HILLEL: $445,000 · OtherBERKELEY HILLELJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY: $166,800 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDE…MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $105,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Respon…UPSTART BAY AREA: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $73,850 · Other+5 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $212,200 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL P…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $156,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE IS…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $125,000 · InternationalThe American Jewi…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $116,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTE…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $56,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $250,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE…MOISHE HOUSE: $139,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOU…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $145,000 · EducationIsrael 21c: $109,800 · EducationCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $73,200 · EducationUrban Adamah: $179,000 · EnvironmentSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $38,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $27,500 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $8,600 · HealthREACH BURN FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · HealthProject Koru: $5,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,785,117Other$820,650International$665,200Religion$389,000Education$328,000Environment$179,000Health$87,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $1,763,617 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL: $445,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $212,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Adamah: $179,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY: $166,800 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $156,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $139,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $116,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael 21c: $109,800 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $105,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $73,200 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $15,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH SENIOR LIVING GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $13,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLINGSHOT FUND INC: $11,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $8,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH BURN FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetProject Koru: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Community Foun…Rodan Family Foundati…The Jewish Community …Koret FoundationThe Donald and Carole…The Shimon Ben Joseph…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Communal FundLibitzky Family Found…Jewish Community Fede…John Pritzker Family …
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA23× affinity9 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Rodan Family Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · Koret Foundation · The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Libitzky Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · John Pritzker Family Fund

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 Colen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Colen Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colen 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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