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Herta & Paul Amir 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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Science & Tech$14MInternational$7.7MArts & Culture$958kPhilanthropy$700kReligion$56kEducation$41kFood & Nutrition$25kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k8 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY$1,010,611
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM$787,328
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA$250,000
TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO$75,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$25,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$20,000
SINAI TEMPLE$18,195
AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONI$10,000
FRIENDS OF ELNET$10,000
UCLA - THE UC REGENTS$8,700
THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS$1,140
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH$1,000
CAMERA MIDDLE EAST REPORTING$750
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$720
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOREST HILLS JEWISH CENTER: $5k → 13%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY: $11.0M → 17%PRO ISRAEL AMERICA: $1k → 28%FRIENDS OF ELNET: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL: $25k → 7%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $158k → 14%FRIENDS OF ELNET: $10k → 14%MOCA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $250k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $75k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $75k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $38k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF: $100k → 17%THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $3k → 17%THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $1k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORY ART: $250k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH: $3k → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $18k → 14%WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $13k → 14%TEL AVIV MUSEM OF ARTS: $240k → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $10k → 14%TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 17%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%UCLA - THE UC REGENTS: $9k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONI: $10k → 17%UCLA - THE UC REGENTS: $9k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL PHILHARMONI: $5k → 17%UCLA - THE UC REGENTS: $9k → 14%THE UC REGENTS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSE: $4k → 17%THE UC REGENTS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW: $3k → 17%CAMP RAMAH: $2k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $3k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $250k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA: $250k → 14%THE JEWISH FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%CONSULATE GENERAL ISRAEL LOS ANGELE: $10k → 14%CONSULATE GENERAL ISRAEL LOS ANGELE: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV: $3k → 14%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 11 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$22M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+59%

Still filing today

36%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2018–2023 · $7.3M · revenue +49% · 63% of their budget
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +51%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ELNET
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +46%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORY ART
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • TA
    TEL AVIV MUSEM OF ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $240k

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
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…

2
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
3
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
4
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
6
The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International
7
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
8
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
9
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

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

Education
10
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

12
Sherit Isroel

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY — $14,051,636 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY+27 more — $1,077,775 · Other+27 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $7,257,328 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDIC…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $308,000 · International+3 more — $73,525 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $500,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $900 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$15,129,411International$7,638,853Philanthropy$525,000Arts & Culture$250,900Civil Rights$2,500Health$1,000

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $7,257,328 over 4y, 63% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA — $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $308,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $51,025 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Group Theatre — $120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $60 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC
  • Who funds Santa Monica Group Theatre
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Herta & Paul Amir Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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, FY2025

    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 Herta & Paul Amir Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Herta & Paul Amir Foundation 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 41 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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