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Fooksman Family Foundation at a glance

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Fooksman Family 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$216k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$1.4MReligion$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$1.0MEducation$570kHuman Services$273kYouth Development$235kHealth$215kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $785k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $791k
$40,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION$216,000
LELEKA$150,000
NOVA UKRAINE$60,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$60,000
ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE$55,000
CLUB Z RIMON CLUB$50,000
BOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC$50,000
OPENDOR MEDIA INC$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
UPSTART BAY AREA$50,000
ARTIS$40,100
AID COALITION$40,045
Individual grant recipient$40,000
JEWISH MAJORITY$40,000
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$40,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $30k → 8%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $30k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Fooksman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 31%.

Fooksman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 44 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
40

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

61%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RC
    Rimon Club Z DBA Club Z
    4× · 2019–2022 · $585k · revenue +86% · 32% of their budget
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +46%
  • AP
    ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $285k · revenue +632%

Funded once

  • NI
    NEXTBOOK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • RG
    RFAK GLOBAL CITIZENS PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • PI
    PLEDGES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -65%
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
Sherit Isroel
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3
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
—
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
8
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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9
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
10
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
11
The Jerusalem Connection
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12
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is New Wave Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 102 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
34/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LELEKA: $210,000 · OtherLELEKAARTIS: $175,100 · OtherARTISCLUB Z RIMON CLUB: $150,000 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $150,000 · OtherHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $120,000 · OtherRFAK GLOBAL CITIZENS PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherPLEDGES INC: $100,000 · Other+53 more: $1,952,428 · Other+53 moreRimon Club Z DBA Club Z: $585,000 · ReligionRimon Club Z DBA …AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $280,000 · ReligionAREIVIM PHILANTHR…NEXTBOOK INC: $120,000 · ReligionNEXTBOOK INCOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $50,000 · Religion+2 more: $45,000 · ReligionIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $351,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT FORUM FO…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH A…HOPEWELL FUND: $110,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $55,045 · PhilanthropyAMERICA ISRAEL …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOU…Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $170,000 · InternationalFoundation for…AFSNC INC: $110,000 · InternationalAFSNC INCTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $100,000 · InternationalTHE LAWFARE PR…NOVA UKRAINE: $65,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINEFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR …REVIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · International+6 more: $106,200 · International+6 moreARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE: $285,000 · Arts & CultureNEW WAVE ARTS INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureREVITALIZATION COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT INITIATIVE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MAJORITY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMODERN ARTLIFE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureYom Rishon School: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $150,000 · EducationMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $75,025 · EducationWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationKYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $25,000 · EducationGRAINS OF GOOD FOUNDATION: $205,000 · Health
Other$2,957,528Religion$1,080,000Philanthropy$966,045International$896,200Arts & Culture$550,000Education$320,025Health$205,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRimon Club Z DBA Club Z: $585,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $351,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE: $285,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $280,000 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRAINS OF GOOD FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $170,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $120,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAFSNC INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPLEDGES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $75,025 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNEW WAVE ARTS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetTAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP LTD: $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $55,045 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD C WORNICK JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetREVITALIZATION COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT INITIATIVE: $40,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH MAJORITY: $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKATAHDIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREVIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetJEWISH LEARNINGWORKS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMODERN ARTLIFE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunflower Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYom Rishon School: $20,000 over 2y, 55% 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.

  • Who funds Rimon Club Z DBA Club Z ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAINS OF GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXTBOOK INC ↗
  • Who funds AFSNC INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PLEDGES INC ↗
  • Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW WAVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TAMID ISRAEL INVESTMENT GROUP LTD ↗
  • Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD C WORNICK JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Fede…The Koum Family Found…Jewish Communal FundThe Shimon Ben Joseph…Koret FoundationUnited Jewish Appeal-…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Taube Foundation for …The Marcus Foundation…Combined Jewish Phila…The Paul E Singer Fou…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA34.1× affinity16 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 · The Koum Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Paul E Singer Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report 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
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 102 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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