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Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation I

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$4.9MInternational$690kReligion$229kEducation$163kArts & Culture$84kHealth$29kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$1,256,000
SWC MUSEUM CORP$25,000
MIZEL INSTITUTE$10,000
MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$8,500
CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$2,500
TENNENBAUM SPECIAL SITUATIONS FUND IX LLC$1
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 (FY17–18, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $9k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $9k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
OK

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 11 repeat orgs$491k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$4.0M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+56%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    2× · 2018–2020 · $436k · revenue +145%
  • LG
    LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +23%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $76k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • FA
    FLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION II
    one grant, 2019 · $228k · revenue -103%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • NJ
    NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Sherit Isroel
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2
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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3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
5
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
6
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
7
The Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Life Foundation
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9
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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10
Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…

Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
12
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of San Diego County and the most unlike its peers is Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation Ii. 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

21 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. 21 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,606,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFCGF - STEVE AND PATRICIA MIZEL CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,500,000 · OtherFCGF - STEVE AND PATRICIA MIZEL CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $265,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYFLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION II — $228,004 · OtherFLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION IIIndividual grant recipient — $149,818 · Other+8 more — $120,953 · OtherRose Community Foundation — $1,080,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foun…Central Fund of Israel — $435,925 · InternationalCentral Fu…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $75,500 · InternationalISRAEL EME…NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — $25,000 · International+3 more — $24,750 · InternationalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $440,000 · Community ImprovementLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSWC MUSEUM CORP — $74,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $44,500 · EducationFLO & MORRIS MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC — $20,000 · HealthSharsheret Inc — $5,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC — $3,600 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $18,000 · Human Services
Other$3,869,775Philanthropy$1,080,000International$586,175Community Improvement$440,000Arts & Culture$183,000Education$54,500Health$28,600Human Services$18,000

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 budgetRose Community Foundation — $1,080,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $440,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $435,925 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $265,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFLORA AND MORRIS MIZEL FOUNDATION II — $228,004 over 1y, 25% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $75,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSWC MUSEUM CORP — $74,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $44,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLO & MORRIS MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $250 over 1y, 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.

Flora and Morris Mize…Rose Community Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation IICO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II · Rose Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation I 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation I?

Find your warmest path to Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation I 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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