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Jade Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2021
31
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202021.

Religion$44kCivil Rights$20kInternational$12kEnvironment$4kEducation$4kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$3kArts & Culture$670Other$0
02FY2021 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k28 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$100
Median grant
6
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOL SHALOM$22,273
JDC$10,000
KESHET$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE$2,500
Charles E Smith Jewish Day School$2,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$1,500
The Washington Institute$1,000
Lavinia Engle Scholarship Fund$500
Project Knitwell$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$400
WHITMAN WALKER HEALTH$250
SAGE$100
MEMRI$100
909 WBUR$100
AJC$100
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $144) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $36 → 8%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $36 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $36 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $36 → 8%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Jade Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Jade Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$74k · 22 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
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Total granted

$74k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+33%

Still filing today

55%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthOther

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 ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +74%
  • PK
    Project Knitwell
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +53%
  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200 · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • WP
    Watertown Public Schools
    one grant, 2020 · $200
  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100

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
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…

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 Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

6
Jewish Institute for National Security of America

The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…

International
7
Sherit Isroel
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
10
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
11
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the most unlike its peers is Project Knitwell. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KOL SHALOM — $44,139 · OtherKOL SHALOMJDC — $10,000 · OtherJDC+22 more — $4,292 · Other+22 moreKESHET INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsKESHET INCThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 · InternationalThe American…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $1,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON I…+4 more — $472 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD — $4,200 · EnvironmentTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $50 · EducationProject Knitwell — $1,500 · Health
Other$58,431Civil Rights$20,000International$11,472Environment$4,200Philanthropy$3,000Education$2,550Health$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKESHET INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD — $4,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Knitwell — $1,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jade Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency1% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report 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, FY2025

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 Jade Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jade Family Foundation 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 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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