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Isador Simon Family Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k15 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $21,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $9,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $9,000 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $8,000 |
| CHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST | $5,000 |
| STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $5,000 |
| B'NAI B'RITH CAMP | $5,000 |
| CAMP SOLOMON SCHECHTER | $5,000 |
| HILLEL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $3,000 |
| HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +86% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $48k · revenue +24%- NHNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +1%
- BBB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- MTMOVING TRADITIONSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%
- NJNORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +22%
- PPPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -27%
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 coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.
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 further jewish historical education among youths
To enhance charitable giving; facilitate philanthropy both locally and worldwide; and build permanent financial resources to strengthen organizations and programs that serve the Jewish families of Northern California
The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
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.
Enriching jewish life in northwest indiana, in israel and around the world through service, programming, advocacy and fundraising.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northend Jewish School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Seattle Foundation · Samis Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Isador Simon Family 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.
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% 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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