· Private foundation
Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE | $500,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL (JAFI) | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL USA | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OR NATIONAL MISSIONS | $250,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $75,000 |
| THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $50,000 |
| KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| THE YOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RCRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +179%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC3× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INCone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -84%
- NYNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAWone grant, 2017 · $526k
- AEALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $425k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…
To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Is 89 Parents Teachers Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends Of Or National Missions ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds The reThink Israel Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Wilf Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Law Foundation Inc · The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf Foundation Inc 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.
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gottesman Rtw Academy — 2% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf 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.