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Kolatch Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.4M
Granted FY2022
85
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of Kolatch Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 45 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Kolatch Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

21
’20
21
’21
30
’22
40
’23
45
’24

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

01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$25MReligion$2.8MInternational$944kEducation$808kHealth$494kCommunity Improvement$400kHuman Services$342kFood & Nutrition$286kOther$0
02FY2022 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k55 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $528k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.5M
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND$5,000,000
FIRST HUNGARIAN CONGREGATION OHAB ZEDEK$250,000
THE STARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION$250,000
THE MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD$125,000
BEIS AHARON VYISROEL INC$50,000
AMIT CHILDREN$50,000
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$45,000
FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OFNEW YORK$45,000
CONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAH$36,947
THE MORIAH SCHOOL$36,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$30,000
MANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL$29,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY$25,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$25,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%YATOM THE JEWISH FOSTER AND ADOPTION NETWORK INC: $25k → 11%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND INC: $25k → 14%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%OUR PLACE IN NEW YORK INC: $4k → 20%THE BLUE CARD: $15k → 17%THE BLUE CARD INC: $10k → 17%RELIEF RESOURCES: $15k → 20%BRONX JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $7k → 28%RELIEF RESOURCES: $5k → 20%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WESTSIDE: $4k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $4k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WESTSIDE: $4k → 17%DOROT: $25k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 51 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 81 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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

51
29

Total granted

$4.9M
$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-14%

Still filing today

43%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthReligionOther

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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $741k · revenue +19%
  • MS
    MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD
    4× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +40%
  • AC
    AMIT CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $321k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • M
    MASBIA
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • BH
    BERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL
    one grant, 2021 · $33k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
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…

—
6
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
10
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
11
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
12
The Jerusalem Connection
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bergen Hatzalah Emergency Medical Services 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%8%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr11%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr20%85%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr11%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
11%
7,507/65,675

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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 167 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
45/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $19,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $741,396 · Philanthropy+11 more — $381,850 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $5,000,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING F…FIRST HUNGARIAN CONGREGATION OHAB ZEDEK — $518,000 · OtherFIRST HUNGARIAN CONGREGATION…CONGREGATION AHAVATH TORAH — $281,579 · Other+111 more — $2,147,755 · Other+111 moreETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA — $1,105,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $45,000 · Religion+5 more — $88,000 · ReligionAMIT CHILDREN INC — $320,948 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $215,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $100,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $45,000 · InternationalEZRAT ACHIM FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC — $30,000 · International+6 more — $35,400 · InternationalMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD — $340,000 · EducationSIXPOINT INC — $100,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · EducationSEFARIA INC — $36,000 · Education+8 more — $53,044 · EducationSTARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC — $251,300 · HealthBERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $66,666 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $45,000 · HealthFOOD ALLERGY FUND — $25,000 · HealthSharsheret Inc — $15,150 · Health+3 more — $16,800 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC — $400,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $1,800 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$20,123,246Other$7,947,334Religion$1,238,000International$746,348Education$589,044Health$419,916Community Improvement$401,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $19,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA — $1,105,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $741,396 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC — $400,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD — $340,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC — $320,948 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSTARDUST JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC — $251,300 over 1y, 57% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $215,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSIXPOINT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASBIA — $70,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBERGEN HATZALAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $66,666 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeis Aharon VYisroel Inc DBA American Friends of Here Next Year — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEFARIA INC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEZRAT ACHIM FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetOPERATION ISRAEL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYATOM THE JEWISH FOSTER & ADOPTION NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOROT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKESHER FAMILIES INC — $18,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYESHIVAT SHALSHELET INC — $18,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSharsheret Inc — $15,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALGEMEINER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE DBA TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MANHATTAN — $11,200 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE FEUERSTEIN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontana Jewish Project — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcJewish Community Foun…The Daniel E and Joyc…M D Katz Foundation I…United Jewish Appeal-…The Ojc FundCross River Community…The Goldman Sachs Cha…David & Esther Musche…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation of …
Jewish Communal FundNY50.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Ojc Fund · Cross River Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc

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 Kolatch Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center On the Palisades — 4% of income from government
  • Heichal Hatorah — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 167 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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