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Gonen Family Foundation at a glance

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Gonen Family Foundation

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.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$497kInternational$78kHealth$37kEducation$26kPhilanthropy$9kReligion$3kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$3,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL$100,000
JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL$12,532
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$6,120
THE IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION$3,600
EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS$3,600
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$660
Individual grant recipient$420
CHABAD OF THE CONEJO$360
MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (MEMRI)$250
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 (FY18–24, $497k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $75k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $75k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $65k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $52k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $25k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%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.
$611k · 7 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$611k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+60%

Still filing today

86%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & 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

  • IC
    ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $497k · revenue +11%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    5× · 2018–2023 · $39k · revenue +91%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS OF WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -61%
  • IF
    ISRAFEST FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +87%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
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
3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Americans for the Israeli Third Wayinc

to address the deep social, economic, ethical, religious and ideological rifts that exist within Israeli society.

International
5
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
6
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
9
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
10
The Jerusalem Connection
—
11
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
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 Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $496,701 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCILISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $39,310 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY AL…Larger Than Life - LA Family: $36,500 · InternationalLarger Than Life - …BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $28,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL F…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,120 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRA…+2 more: $1,500 · InternationalTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $12,532 · OtherEARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS OF WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $10,288 · OtherEARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS: $3,600 · OtherCENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE: $1,890 · Other+3 more: $1,440 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $3,600 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $189 · PhilanthropyISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$496,701International$113,430Other$29,750Philanthropy$9,789Arts & Culture$2,500

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 budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $496,701 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $39,310 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLarger Than Life - LA Family: $36,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $12,532 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANTI HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $189 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Foun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Gonen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gonen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get 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 19 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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