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J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc

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.

$29k
Granted FY2023
26
Grants FY2023
25
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$250
Largest grant, FY2023
$12,855
Organizations funded a year
24 to 38
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202325$27k16%
FY202230$34k27%
FY202133$28k36%
FY202038$27k50%
FY201924$30k13%
FY201825$24k36%
FY201729$29kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$117kHealth$23kPhilanthropy$23kEducation$13kArts & Culture$8kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
CO
NE
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 54 grantees
All grantees of J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stephen S Wise Temple$29,3776n/a
Ort America Inc$7,40070%
Valley Jesters$5,70053%
Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay$4,96030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$4,22560%
GO2 For Lung Cancer$4,00050%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$3,95070%
Stop Cancer$3,70020%
Holocaust Museum La$3,20040%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$3,00030%
Concern Foundation$2,60040%
Beit T'Shuvah$2,10030%
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc$1,50010%
2 a Good Cause Inc$1,3002n/a
East Bay Spca$1,30060%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$1,08250%
Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay$1,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00010%
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix$1,00010%
Hias Inc$1,00010%
National Jewish Health$90040%
Psycharmor Institute Inc$6501n/a
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$60030%
Congregation Beth Israel$5001n/a
Ronald C Wornick Jewish Day School$50010%
Fulfillment Fund$50010%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco$50020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$40020%
Kqed Inc$38060%
Shalom Bayit Foundation Inc$3601n/a
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services$35010%
Anti-Defamation League$30020%
American Heart Association Inc$30010%
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco$25010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$25010%
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc$25010%
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc$20010%
American Jewish University$20010%
Golden Gate University$20010%
CaringBridge$20020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$15020%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$15020%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$10010%
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases$10010%
Peninsula Temple Beth El$1001n/a
Feeding America$10010%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$10010%
ALS Network$10010%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$10010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$10020%
The Head Royce School$10010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$10010%
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund$10010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$5020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrt America Inc: $7,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetValley Jesters: $5,700 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetJewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay: $4,960 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,225 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Community Food Bank: $3,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetStop Cancer: $3,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHolocaust Museum La: $3,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Spca: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Jewish Museum: $1,082 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHias Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald C Wornick Jewish Day School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFulfillment Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVista del Mar Child and Family Services: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center of San Francisco: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for Infectious Diseases: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Head Royce School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChronicle Season of Sharing Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.

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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.

The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Helzel Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Yelp Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

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Find your warmest path to J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc 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.

About J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc

How much does J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc give?
J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $28,777 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Health (11%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Stephen S Wise Temple ($29k), Ort America Inc ($7k), Valley Jesters ($6k).
Does J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Helzel Family Foundation.
Where is J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc based?
J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 86 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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