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Israeli-American Council

The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united states and the state of israel.

$984k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$298k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$2.9MReligion$701kYouth Development$606kArts & Culture$412kPhilanthropy$307kHealth$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEducation$98kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $697,091 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $984,186 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $287,095 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $298k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION$297,500
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STANDWITHUS$50,000
PEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$47,491
FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI INC$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC$32,100
FRIENDS OF BARZILAI$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL$25,000
ZAKA NORTH INC$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC$25,000
ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK$25,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$20,000
STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL$15,000
THE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $25k → 11%ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK: $75k → 8%THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $200k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $32k → 17%ZAKA NORTH INC: $25k → 20%EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF HOUSTON: $25k → 16%MOADON KOL CHADASH: $25k → 14%ICON-ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK LLC: $75k → 8%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS: $453k → 17%MOADON KOL CHADASH: $22k → 14%OR BA'MIDAR CHABAD: $20k → 13%ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK: $75k → 8%ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STANDWITHUS: $50k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $439k → 17%KAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADES: $23k → 7%STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $25k → 11%ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK: $75k → 8%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $415k → 17%STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $25k → 11%ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK: $75k → 8%STANDWITHUS: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $320k → 17%STUDENTS SUPPORTIING ISRAEL: $25k → 11%OSHMAN FAMILY JCC: $55k → 8%BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $290k → 17%FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI INC: $40k → 7%ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK: $25k → 8%ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LOS ANGELES: $428k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $290k → 17%SHEVET CHEN - ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LOS ANGELES: $55k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $26k → 17%SHEVET CHEN-ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LA: $55k → 14%FRIENDS OF BARZILAI: $25k → 17%ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%MATI CULTURAL CENTER: $40k → 14%SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $75k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC: $25k → 17%PEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $47k → 17%BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%BNEI AKIVA LA: $30k → 14%STAND WITH US: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL: $25k → 14%AMI SCHOOL: $32k → 14%AMI SCHOOL ORGANIZATION: $30k → 14%SCIENCEABROAD: $30k → 14%IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $298k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $146k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $139k to organizations and $7k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$146k · 100% · 5 grants · 200 people

Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR KIBBUTZIM · EQUIPMENT & FURNITURE FOR THE GAN AT EIN HABSOR EFFECTED BY OCTOBER 7 EVENTS · SUPPORT ACTIVITIES & INITIATIVES OF THE OFAKIM ACTIVITY CENTER IN ISRAEL

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 11 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
33

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+4%

Still filing today

91%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +70%
  • TI
    The Israeli Scouts of Los Angeles
    3× · 2018–2020 · $533k · revenue +2%
  • OF
    OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israelgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +145%
  • O
    OTHER
    one grant, 2017 · $195k
  • TS
    THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +52%

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
Sherit Isroel
—
2
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
5
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
University of Judaism Foundation
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8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
10
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
11
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
12
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dmb Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%7%<5yr14%13%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%53%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,718

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 58 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
15/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC — $2,246,389 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INCCentral Fund of Israel — $200,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $100,000 · InternationalSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL — $100,000 · International+5 more — $192,100 · International+5 moreOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $380,000 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMM…OTHER — $195,335 · OtherOTHERICON-ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK LLC — $75,000 · OtherICON-ISRAELI COLLABORATIO…SHEVET CHEN-ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LA — $55,000 · OtherMATI CULTURAL CENTER — $40,000 · Other+27 more — $431,329 · Other+27 moreThe Israeli Scouts of Los Angeles — $533,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Israeli…IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION — $297,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $47,491 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $9,000 · PhilanthropyBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES — $72,000 · ReligionAmi School Organization — $37,000 · ReligionZAKA NORTH INC — $25,000 · ReligionEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $25,000 · ReligionMaccabim Hebrew School — $7,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF BARZILAI — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 · HealthSTAND BY ME INC — $20,000 · Healththe DMB Fund — $18,000 · HealthMOADON KOL CHADASH — $53,700 · EducationBEREISHEET INC — $19,750 · EducationISRAELI SCHOOL OF LEXINGTON INC — $10,304 · Education
International$2,838,489Other$1,176,664Youth Development$533,000Philanthropy$378,991Religion$166,000Health$88,000Education$83,754

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC — $2,246,389 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetThe Israeli Scouts of Los Angeles — $533,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $380,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION — $297,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL — $100,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES — $72,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMOADON KOL CHADASH — $53,700 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $47,491 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI — $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAmi School Organization — $37,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC — $32,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE PALISADES — $29,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BARZILAI — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND BY ME INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBEREISHEET INC — $19,750 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSHEVET TAPUZ — $18,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC — $15,300 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetISRAELI SCHOOL OF LEXINGTON INC — $10,304 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJEWISH CIRCLE THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaccabim Hebrew School — $7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAISH HATORAH OF WASHINGTON DC INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Adelson Family Founda…The Milstein Family F…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Communal FundShepher FoundationJewish Federation Cou…The Jewish Federation…Jewish Federation of …FjcGs Donor Advised Phil…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…
Adelson Family FoundationMA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Adelson Family Foundation · The Milstein Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Shepher Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Israeli-American Council 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Jewish Community Center On the Palisades — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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How do I get to Israeli-American Council?

Find your warmest path to Israeli-American Council 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 58 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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