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John and Catherine Farahi Family Foundation at a glance

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John and Catherine Farahi Family Foundation

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.

$304k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

International$365kReligion$85kFood & Nutrition$25kCivil Rights$7kEducation$5kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$222k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE FOUNDATION$100,000
ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP$85,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA$75,000
JEWISH COLORADO$20,000
ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STAND WITH US$10,000
CONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANU-EL$10,000
HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS$3,600
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $85k → 7%ISRAEL21C: $5k → 10%ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STAND WITH US: $10k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA: $75k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES: $10k → 14%JEWISH COLORADO: $20k → 12%NEGEV FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HEBREW CEMETARY INC: $50k → 10%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA: $50k → 17%CONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $10k → 10%HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS: $4k → 17%CONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $5k → 10%HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS: $4k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $5k → 17%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.
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 3 repeat orgs$325k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$147k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalEducationPublic 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

  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k
  • CT
    CONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANUEL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k
  • HF
    HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEBREW CEMETERY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • TN
    THE NEGEV FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +187%
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
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
4
New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International
5
Israel-America Academic Exchange

Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…

International
6
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
8
International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation Inc

Education events regarding the us/israel relationship

International
9
Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…

Education
10
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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11
The Jerusalem Connection
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12
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Negev Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $125,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INCTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $85,000 · InternationalTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUPBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalTHE NEGEV FOUNDATIONFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $10,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 · InternationalHOPE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherHOPE FOUNDATIONHEBREW CEMETERY INC: $50,000 · OtherHEBREW CEMETERY INCCONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANUEL: $15,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANUEL+1 more: $5,000 · OtherJEWISHColorado: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $7,200 · EducationIsrael 21c: $5,000 · EducationENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $10,000 · Public Benefit
International$280,000Other$170,000Philanthropy$20,000Education$12,200Public Benefit$10,000

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 budgetTHE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP: $85,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $7,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIsrael 21c: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Jewish Communal FundFidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 John and Catherine Farahi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Catherine Farahi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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