· Private foundation
Kornwasser Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $51,000 |
| GEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE | $44,600 |
| BOCA JEWISH CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| MIKVAH YISROEL | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM | $12,500 |
| LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC | $10,000 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $10,000 |
| ONE FAMILY | $7,200 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TEISHI | $5,000 |
| CHINUCH YEHUDI | $3,600 |
| KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA | $3,600 |
| NSHEI BOBOV DBA TOV VICHESED | $3,600 |
| EMES | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +383%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM4× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +316%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- GCGlobal Center of Squareone grant, 2020 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $18k
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +39%
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.
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.
Religious Teaching
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Religious School
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 110 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds Kollel - Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Siksha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PERUTZ ETZ JACOB HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds West Coast Vaad Hachesed ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HATZOLAH OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BAIS CHESED LA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc · Hager Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Alon and Rosana Miller Foundation · Rohcs Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kornwasser Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kornwasser Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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