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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
7
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2023 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k25 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$250
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE SINAI$12,855
STEPHEN WISE TEMPLE$4,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES$1,850
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$1,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK$1,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$1,000
ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION$750
ORT AMERICA$750
HOLOCAUST MESEUM LA$500
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM$342
EAST BAY SPCA$300
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOC$250
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES$250
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 10%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%VISTA DEL MAR: $350 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%TIDES CENTER SHALOM BAYIT: $100 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%FULLFILLMENT FUND: $500 → 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
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IN
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CA
CO
NE
MD
AZ
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DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 42 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
38

Total granted

$187k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +46%
  • GF
    GO2 For Lung Cancer
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +175%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +87%

Funded once

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    THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +13%
  • BO
    BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIXgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +39%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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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
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
4
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
9
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion
12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Valley Jesters. 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

51 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. 51 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE SINAI: $83,748 · OtherTEMPLE SINAISTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE: $29,377 · OtherSTEPHEN S WISE TEMPLEORT AMERICA INC: $7,400 · Other+48 more: $44,635 · Other+48 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $8,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH CO…VALLEY JESTERS: $5,700 · PhilanthropyVALLEY JE…CONCERN FOUNDATION: $2,600 · PhilanthropyCONCERN F…HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $3,200 · Arts & CultureTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,082 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $600 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $380 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureGO2 For Lung Cancer: $4,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $900 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 · Health+6 more: $850 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,225 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND: $500 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $350 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250 · Human Services+3 more: $300 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $200 · EducationGOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY: $200 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $1,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $400 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $250 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 · International
Other$165,160Philanthropy$17,050Arts & Culture$7,112Health$6,050Human Services$5,625Education$4,400International$2,750

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY JESTERS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds STOP CANCER ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds PSYCHARMOR INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J B Arnovitz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 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.

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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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