· Private foundation
Jules and Barbara Nordlicht Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jules and Barbara Nordlicht Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Jules and Barbara Nordlicht Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $335k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k9 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI | $125,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WESTCHESTER TORAH | $125,000 |
| AMIT | $61,270 |
| YOUNG ISRALE OF LONG BEACH | $10,800 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $6,082 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $2,250 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| NCSY | $640 |
| LONG BEACH CHARITY FUND | $500 |
| DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND | $350 |
| ISRAEL CHILDREN CANCER CENTERS | $250 |
| JUST ONE LIFE | $180 |
| MATAN B'SETER BAMBI | $180 |
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 (FY18–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +209%
- DMDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +120%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- WTWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +44% · 31% of their budget
- SASALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $7k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI Aone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To provide financial and other assistance to needy persons and families in Israel
Religious School
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
To provide guidance and support to families with ill or physically disabled family members
To further jewish education in israel
Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.
Support of religious outreach in Iceland
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noam Shabbos Inc and the most unlike its peers is Long Beach Mikveh Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 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 WESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Israel Renaissance Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Long Beach Mikveh Society Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC ↗
- Who funds NOAM SHABBOS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MISASKIM CORP ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Cd Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Jules and Barbara Nordlicht 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% 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.