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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.

$594k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$479k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$2.9MReligion$701kYouth Development$606kArts & Culture$412kPhilanthropy$307kHealth$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEducation$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $522,098, the rows itemized in this filing. The $593,708 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,610 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $250k+1 grant · $479k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAELI AMERICAN COALITION FOR ACTION$479,098
ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL$18,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%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 AMERICAN COALITION FOR ACTION: $479k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $290k → 17%ICON- ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK: $25k → 8%ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LOS ANGELES: $428k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $26k → 17%SHEVET CHEN-ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LA: $55k → 14%FRIENDS OF BARZILAI: $25k → 17%SHEVET CHEN - ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LOS ANGELES: $55k → 14%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 LA: $30k → 14%BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $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
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
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TX
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 11 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

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

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
46

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & 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

  • 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
    7× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IF
    IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $298k · 26% of their budget
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israelgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +145%
  • O
    OTHER
    one grant, 2017 · $195k
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
—
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
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
7
University of Judaism Foundation
—
8
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
10
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
12
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
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 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 60 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
17/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $2,246,389 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INCISRAELI-AMERICAN COALITION FOR ACTION: $479,098 · InternationalISRAELI-AMERICAN COALITION FOR ACTIONCentral Fund of Israel: $200,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel+8 more: $410,100 · International+8 moreOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $405,000 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH CO…OTHER: $195,335 · OtherOTHERICON-ISRAELI COLLABORATION NETWORK LLC: $75,000 · OtherICON-ISRAELI COLLABORAT…SHEVET CHEN-ISRAELI SCOUTS OF LA: $55,000 · Other+28 more: $471,329 · Other+28 moreThe Israeli Scouts of Los Angeles: $533,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Israel…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$3,335,587Other$1,201,664Youth Development$533,000Philanthropy$378,991Religion$166,000Health$88,000Education$83,754

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 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 budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COALITION FOR ACTION: $479,098 over 1y, 100% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $405,000 over 7y, 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ASSUTA ASHDOD HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTAND BY ME INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELIEF FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJEWISH CIRCLE THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% 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
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.

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

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 Israeli-American Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Israeli-American Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 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 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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