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Dorot Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $923k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $505,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $325,000 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $325,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE | $215,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND | $150,000 |
| WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC | $150,000 |
| LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC | $150,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FUND INCE | $150,000 |
| BEND THE ARC-A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE | $145,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC | $130,000 |
| COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION | $125,000 |
| CATALYST FUNDGROUNDSWELL | $125,000 |
| AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICES CORPS INC | $110,000 |
| JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC | $107,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Dorot Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 36 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
NEO Philanthropy Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $975k · revenue +1%- ATAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $585k · revenue +16%
COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $575k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FSFAO SCHWARZ FAMILY FDNone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +1%
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +47%
- GFGroundswell Fundone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
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…
To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…
Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…
Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fao Schwarz Family Fdn. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
76 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. 76 of the 188 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 NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAW FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FAO SCHWARZ FAMILY FDN ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Covenant Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Boston Foundation Inc · Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah · Liberty Mutual Foundation 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 organization Dorot 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston After School & Beyond Inc — 15% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cambridge College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% 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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