· Private foundation
Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation II
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k23 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $353k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $671k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWC MUSEUM CORP | $1,140,000 |
| FRIEDMAN CENTER FOR PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH INC | $230,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $61,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH | $46,000 |
| MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $36,750 |
| JEWISH COLORADO | $36,000 |
| RMJHSDU | $33,500 |
| SHAREWELL CAYTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| MIKVAH OF EAST DENVER | $15,600 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST LOUIS | $12,200 |
| BMH-BJ CONGREGATION | $11,800 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2022, 30 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- SMSWC MUSEUM CORP3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +93%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $600k · revenue +57%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $596k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -8%
- SASAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +10%
- IIIMPACTISRAEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +64%
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…
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 shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
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…
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.
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.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Tulsa and the most unlike its peers is Alfred Freudenthal Memorial Foundation of Trinidad Colorado. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 163 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 SWC MUSEUM CORP ↗
- Who funds Friedman Center for Peace Through Strength Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds FLO & MORRIS MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YULA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECT ISRAEL ↗
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: Rose Community Foundation · JEWISHColorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Mizel Global Cultural Fund · The Chotin Family Foundation · Shana Glassman Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Morse Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation I
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 II 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% 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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