· Private foundation
Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $327k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $623k
- $250k+4 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND #4681 | $8,225,000 |
| WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $2,196,147 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,529,146 |
| CONGREGATION KOL ISRAEL | $414,667 |
| 1210 SCOTT STREET INC | $202,000 |
| WLASTQ LLC | $116,000 |
| START UP NATION CENTRAL (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF) | $55,000 |
| RAMAZ SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR | $50,000 |
| SIXPOINT INC | $50,000 |
| UJA - FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY | $50,000 |
| ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION | $40,000 |
| RABBI YEDIDYA SINCLAIR | $36,000 |
| JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK | $30,000 |
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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($62M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($8.6M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of your 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
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($8.6M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 42% of Keren Keshet - the Rainbow 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.
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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k 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
- WFWorldwide Friends Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +176%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +34%
- AIAFSNC INC4× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TLThe Louis D Brandeis Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +374%
- UIUNIONDOCS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +71%
- A(AURA (FISCAL SPONSOR IS VALUE CULTURE)one grant, 2022 · $150k
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 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…
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is 1210 Scott Street Inc. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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 72 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
- Who funds 1210 SCOTT STREET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AFSNC INC ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIONDOCS INC ↗
- Who funds SIXPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVI CHAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC ↗
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 · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Koum Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Lisa & Michael Leffell Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Paul E Singer Foundation · Nash Family 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 Keren Keshet - the Rainbow 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 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.
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