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Feldman Foundation Ca

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$3.0MInternational$2.7MCivil Rights$1.4MEducation$911kPublic Benefit$355kPublic Safety & Disaster$260kReligion$193kArts & Culture$137kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $459k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC)$200,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$150,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$100,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$100,000
FRIENDS OF ELNET$75,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$75,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$65,000
FUENTE LATINA$60,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ISRAAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$50,000
ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION$50,000
ZIONESS MOVEMENT$50,000
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 (FY20–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RESPECTABILITY: $6k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 10%PALO ALTO POLICE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $5k → 14%THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MILITARY JUSTICE: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 27% of Feldman Foundation Ca’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. Read by recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 47% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Feldman Foundation Calessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 40 repeat orgs$700k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
24

Total granted

$4.1M
$569k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +11%
  • IO
    ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $325k · revenue +259%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $320k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • OA
    OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -13%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SF
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • GG
    Ground Game Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · 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
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…

—
2
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
4
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
5
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
9
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
12
Jews of Color Initiative

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…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is National Institute of Military Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%56%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,913

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.

05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
42/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $2,671,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO TH…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,070,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+7 more — $92,300 · PhilanthropyThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $320,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish J…Fuente Latina Inc — $300,000 · InternationalFuente Latina IncAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $275,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCA…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $260,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE …FRIENDS OF ELNET — $210,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNETITREK INC — $150,000 · InternationalITREK INCTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $86,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $70,000 · International+2 more — $67,500 · InternationalTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $463,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC — $325,000 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPU…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $275,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $85,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Education+4 more — $35,600 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $650,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY…JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SF — $100,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY…FACING HISTORY FACING OURSELVES — $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMBATTING DIGITAL HATE — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherGround Game Fund — $75,000 · OtherGround Game FundIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $50,000 · Other+33 more — $334,984 · Other+33 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $180,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $150,000 · Civil RightsOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Civil RightsZIONESS MOVEMENT INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $50,000 · Civil RightsFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $30,000 · Civil RightsISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $235,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureREUT USA — $50,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Womens Choral Projects — $45,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$3,833,300International$1,738,500Education$1,238,600Other$1,369,984Civil Rights$610,000Public Safety & Disaster$236,000Arts & Culture$175,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $2,671,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,070,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $650,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $463,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC — $325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $320,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFuente Latina Inc — $300,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $260,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $235,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $210,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetITREK INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC — $100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $86,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game Fund — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $55,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREUT USA — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Womens Choral Projects — $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $9,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKQED INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES — $5,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Bridges — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS — $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO POLICE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Jewish Communal FundThe San Francisco Fou…Combined Jewish Phila…Newton & Rochelle Bec…Koret FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Charles and Lynn Schu…The Goldman Sachs Cha…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA39.4× affinity18 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 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · Koret Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 Feldman Foundation Ca 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 · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report 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

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 Feldman Foundation Ca?

Find your warmest path to Feldman Foundation Ca 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 80 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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