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Jules and Barbara Nordlicht Foundation at a glance

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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.

$335k
Granted FY2020
13
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

9
’17
9
’18
16
’19
5
’20
2
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$1.5MReligion$673kPhilanthropy$120kCivil Rights$12kYouth Development$11kHealth$10kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $311k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $500 → 10%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $250 → 20%MISASKIM: $180 → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $180 → 20%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $5k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $350 → 6%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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$798k · 18 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
26

Total granted

$798k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+83%

Still filing today

33%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +209%
  • DM
    DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +120%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • WT
    WESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +44% · 31% of their budget
  • SA
    SALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI A
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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 Select Charity Fund Inc

Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.

Human Services
3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
4
Noam Shabbos Inc

To provide financial and other assistance to needy persons and families in Israel

Religion
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
8
Israel Medical Fund Corp

To provide guidance and support to families with ill or physically disabled family members

Human Services
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
University of Judaism Foundation
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11
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
12
Chabad of Iceland Inc

Support of religious outreach in Iceland

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noam Shabbos Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY: $1,500,000 · EducationWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAMIT: $254,531 · OtherAMITFRIENDS OF WESTCHESTER TORAH: $250,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF WESTCHESTER TORAHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI: $237,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI+36 more: $71,955 · Other+36 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $34,056 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $7,250 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $613 · Health+1 more: $54 · HealthDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,350 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $500 · Human ServicesMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $430 · Human Services+1 more: $180 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Fund of Israel: $1,000 · InternationalJUST ONE LIFE INC: $430 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $250 · InternationalBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Religion
Education$1,501,000Other$813,986Community Improvement$34,056Health$7,917Human Services$6,460Philanthropy$3,000International$1,680Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTCHESTER TORAH ACADEMY: $1,500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $34,056 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $7,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Renaissance Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $613 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Beach Mikveh Society Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $54 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 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 BNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Israel Renaissance Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds Long Beach Mikveh Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds Israel Magen Fund 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 ↗

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 FundGertrude and Morris B…The Ojc FundCd FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY20.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jules and Barbara Nordlicht Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jules and Barbara Nordlicht Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 54 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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