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Fohs Foundation at a glance

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Fohs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

86% of Fohs Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
6
’21
4
’22
4
’23
2
’24

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, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.9MCivil Rights$640kInternational$630kEducation$20kReligion$10kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$250,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$25,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$15,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $25k → 10%GESHER FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK: $25k → 11%FOHS HALL: $10k → 20%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $10k → 10%T'RUAH RABBINICAL PROGRAM: $10k → 17%MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK: $21k → 11%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $10k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $3.0M → 17%MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $10k → 11%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $10k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $2.0M → 17%MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK: $5k → 11%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $2.0M → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.5M → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $250k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5k → 10%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $30k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $3k → 10%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $26k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $2k → 10%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $25k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $25k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $15k → 17%PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $250k → 17%THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES: $200k → 17%THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES: $200k → 17%THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES: $100k → 17%THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES: $90k → 17%THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES: $50k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $40k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $25k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $25k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $25k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $25k → 17%PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $25k → 17%PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $10k → 17%PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $10k → 17%PEF - ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$982k · 5 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$982k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $640k · revenue -4%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +4%
  • JF
    JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $121k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • HI
    HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +68%
  • FH
    FOHS HALL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -57%
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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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3
Sherit Isroel
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4
The Jerusalem Connection
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5
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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6
The Foundation for the Preservation of the History of the Jewish People in
Arts & Culture
7
American Friends of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Inc

To provide for the needs of the great synagogue in jerusalem israel.

Religion
8
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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9
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
10
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
11
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
12
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fohs Hall Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $8,750,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+2 more: $426,200 · PhilanthropyTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $640,000 · InternationalTHE ABRAHA…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $140,000 · InternationalThe Americ…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $79,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL…THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $61,000 · InternationalTHE MIDDLE…+3 more: $65,000 · International+3 moreFOHS HALL INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureT'RUAH RABBINICAL PROGRAM: $10,000 · Other
Philanthropy$9,176,200International$985,000Arts & Culture$10,000Other$10,000

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 COMMUNAL FUND: $8,750,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $640,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $305,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $121,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $79,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $61,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOHS HALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fohs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fohs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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