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Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$8.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

15
’20
19
’21
26
’22
20
’23
21
’24

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

01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$52MInternational$3.3MReligion$3.2MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$725kHealth$350kCivil Rights$308kCommunity Improvement$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $623k
  • $250k+4 grants · $12M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$174M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SIXPOINT INC$50,000
CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR$50,000
RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP$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
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.

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRANDEIS MARIN: $130k → 8%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $100k → 10%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $55k → 6%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 17%CONGREGATION KOL ISRAEL: $415k → 20%SIXPOINT INC: $100k → 12%IMAGINATION PRODUCTIONS (DBA OPENDORMEDIA): $50k → 13%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $13.0M → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY HS OF THE BAY: $418k → 10%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $400k → 17%SIXPOINT INC: $50k → 12%VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $13.0M → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY HS OF THE BAY: $218k → 10%BBYO: $75k → 14%TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC: $50k → 12%CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR: $100k → 8%TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC: $50k → 12%CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR: $50k → 8%UNION DOCS: $150k → 20%LOUIS D BRANDEIS CENTER INC: $250k → 14%WLASTQ LLC: $116k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND #4681: $10.0M → 17%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND #4681: $8.2M → 17%AURA (FISCAL SPONSOR IS VALUE CULTURE): $150k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND #4681: $3.2M → 17%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND #4681: $3.0M → 17%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND #4681: $1.1M → 17%FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS: $180k → 17%FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS: $50k → 17%SHALEM FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $645k → 17%RAMAZ SCHOOL: $575k → 17%1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $509k → 17%1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $325k → 17%1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $295k → 17%1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $202k → 17%RAMAZ SCHOOL: $75k → 17%RAMAZ SCHOOL: $75k → 17%RAMAZ SCHOOL: $50k → 17%RAMAZ SCHOOL: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BRONFMAN CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDENT LIFE: $50k → 17%NEW YORK WEILL: $50k → 17%START UP NATION CENTRAL (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF): $140k → 17%START UP NATION CENTRAL (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF): $55k → 17%AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP: $50k → 17%START-UP NATION CENTRAL (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF): $50k → 17%START-UP NATION CENTRAL (AMERICAN FRIENDS OF): $50k → 17%RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($8.6M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$8.5M · 14 grants
Liechtenstein$56k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 42% of Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 40 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
24

Total granted

$18M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+74%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WF
    Worldwide Friends Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +176%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +34%
  • AI
    AFSNC INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • TL
    The Louis D Brandeis Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +355%
  • UI
    UNIONDOCS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +71%
  • A(
    AURA (FISCAL SPONSOR IS VALUE CULTURE)
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
The Jerusalem Connection
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5
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
6
Sherit Isroel
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7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
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9
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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10
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
11
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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12
The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; 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.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 72 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $26,000,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $25,475,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+6 more: $998,500 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $8,049,548 · OtherIndividual grant re…RAMAZ SCHOOL: $825,000 · OtherRAMAZ SCHOOLJEWISH COMMUNITY HS OF THE BAY: $664,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY HS…CONGREGATION KOL ISRAEL: $414,667 · Other+35 more: $2,163,352 · Other+35 moreWorldwide Friends Foundation: $2,596,147 · InternationalAFSNC INC: $295,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $130,045 · International+4 more: $48,000 · International1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $1,975,517 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $100,000 · Religion+4 more: $141,240 · ReligionSIXPOINT INC: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $58,000 · EducationGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationUNIONDOCS INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $85,000 · Arts & CultureZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $250,000 · Crime & LegalThe Shalem Foundation: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$52,473,500Other$12,116,567International$3,069,192Religion$2,216,757Education$383,000Arts & Culture$336,000Crime & Legal$300,000

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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $26,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $25,475,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $2,596,147 over 2y, 5.5% of budget1210 SCOTT STREET INC: $1,975,517 over 5y, 100% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $550,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAFSNC INC: $295,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $248,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSIXPOINT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTHE AVI CHAI FOUNDATION: $142,469 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $130,045 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $118,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $77,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $58,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC: $23,240 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRimon Club Z DBA Club Z: $18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $18,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 GATESTONE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC ↗

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 FundJewish Community Fede…Jewish Community Foun…The Koum Family Found…United Jewish Appeal-…Lisa & Michael Leffel…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation of …Donors Trust IncCombined Jewish Phila…The Paul E Singer Fou…Nash Family Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY35× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Keren Keshet - the Rainbow Foundation 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.

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 72 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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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home