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Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation at a glance

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Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.8MHealth$4.1MReligion$3.2MCivil Rights$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$917kInternational$127kHuman Services$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $738k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$1,000,000
WEST COAST KOLLEL$650,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA$237,500
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$200,000
MAOR ACADEMY LA INC$200,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$50,000
WEST COAST TORAH RETREAT$50,000
YULA HIGH SCHOOL$36,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,000
BNEI AKIVA LOS ANGELES$18,000
YAVNEH FAMILY SERVICES$18,000
EMUNAH OF AMERICA$10,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$10,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK$10,000
GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%BONEI OLAM: $9k → 20%BELEV ECHAD INC: $10k → 17%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $100 → 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
NJ
CA
MD
DC
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 62 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
43

Total granted

$17M
$618k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+50%

Still filing today

47%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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
EducationInternationalArts & CultureReligionHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +25%
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +51%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEST COAST FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIV
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • PA
    Purpose Agreement 883 Koren Chumash
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • CG
    CONGREGATION GATES OF MERCY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
6
University of Judaism Foundation
—
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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8
Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah

To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

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9
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
10
American Friends of Minyan Avreichim

Support religious jewish instituions in furthering torah study

—
11
Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles

The Organization is a school dedicated to providing an outstanding Judaic and general education in an environment that is consistent with this ideology. The Organization seeks to fulfill its mission by hiring the finest teachers and staff…

Education
12
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

47 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. 47 of the 113 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YULA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL: $2,067,266 · OtherYULA BOYS HIGH SCHOOLYESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF NY: $1,400,250 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY OF NYWEST COAST KOLLEL: $950,000 · OtherWEST COAST KOLLELYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $615,000 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITYTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $501,400 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONWEST COAST TORAH RETREAT: $300,000 · Other+72 more: $1,300,750 · Other+72 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $4,000,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CEN…+3 more: $17,240 · HealthSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $3,060,675 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER…SWC MUSEUM CORP: $600,000 · Arts & CultureSWC MUSEUM CORPFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $142,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $36,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $1,100,000 · EducationAMERICAN …Maor Academy LA Inc: $225,000 · EducationMaor Acad…SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY: $75,000 · Education+5 more: $78,725 · EducationJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $900,000 · ReligionGindi Maimonides Academy: $141,000 · ReligionBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $69,800 · Religion+3 more: $44,252 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $600,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $21,650 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $46,300 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · International+4 more: $6,700 · International
Other$7,134,666Health$4,017,240Arts & Culture$3,839,675Education$1,478,725Religion$1,155,052Philanthropy$621,650International$173,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $3,060,675 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $1,100,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $900,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSWC MUSEUM CORP: $600,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMaor Academy LA Inc: $225,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $142,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGindi Maimonides Academy: $141,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES: $69,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $46,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $38,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYULA HIGH SCHOOL: $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRELIGIOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA MIZRACHI HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBais Yaakov School For Girls: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY INC: $18,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $12,230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP: $11,980 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD: $11,725 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTeachers On Fire: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLA COUNTY DA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWest Coast Vaad Hachesed: $752 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF WOODLAKE VILLAGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImanu: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE 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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SWC MUSEUM CORP ↗
  • Who funds Maor Academy LA Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Gindi Maimonides Academy ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds YULA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds RELIGIOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA MIZRACHI HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI INC ↗
  • Who funds Bais Yaakov School For Girls ↗
  • Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Davmarn FoundationJewish Communal FundLee and Anne Samson C…Ryzman Foundation IncGoldner Family Founda…Jewish Federation Cou…The Elishis Family Fo…Kornwasser Charitable…Chavi F Hertz Foundat…Jay Morris Foundation…Natalie & Jonathan Ge…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA47.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Davmarn Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · Ryzman Foundation Inc · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Elishis Family Foundation · Kornwasser Charitable Foundation · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · Natalie & Jonathan Gerber Family Foundation

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 Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 113 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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