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Lee and Jerry Zoldan Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Lee and Jerry Zoldan Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$512
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$42kReligion$26kPhilanthropy$10kCivil Rights$5kEducation$3kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAAID$512
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC$500
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCITECH SCHOOLS INC$500
INNOVATION AFRICA$400
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KAVOD: $2k → 12%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

IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
MD
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 14 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +122% since the first grant, against +116% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$64k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+122%
+116%

Still filing today

36%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalReligionCivil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +122%
  • PI
    PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +20%
  • IA
    INNOVATION AFRICA
    2× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends Of Vive Israel
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • AF
    American Friends Of Vibe Israel
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +116%
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
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
4
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
5
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
6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
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…

—
8
Israel Initiative 2020 Inc
International
9
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
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10
Pro-Israel America United

The organization's major purpose was to educate americans on us-israeli relations, encourage advocacy, and promote civic engagement.

International
11
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vibe Israel Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Israel Education 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

15 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. 15 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $20,264 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHICAGO LOOP SYNAGOGUE: $16,086 · OtherCHICAGO LOOP SYNAGOGUEAmerican Friends Of Vive Israel: $10,000 · OtherAmerican Friends Of Vive IsraelAmerican Friends Of Vibe Israel: $10,000 · OtherAmerican Friends Of Vibe IsraelANSHE EMET SYNAGOGUE: $5,600 · OtherANSHE EMET SYNAGOGUEJewish Federation Of Orlando: $5,000 · OtherJewish Federation Of Orlando+11 more: $12,392 · Other+11 moreISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,300 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENC…PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,000 · InternationalPARDES INSTITUT…INNOVATION AFRICA: $2,400 · InternationalINNOVATION AFRI…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,220 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL…CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC: $1,500 · InternationalCENTER FOR ISRA…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyKAVOD: $2,000 · Human ServicesISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOISHE HOUSE: $500 · ReligionJEWBELONG INC: $500 · ReligionFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC: $500 · Education
Other$79,342International$15,420Civil Rights$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$2,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Religion$1,000Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $6,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATION AFRICA: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIBE ISRAEL USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAVOD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $500 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.

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 Federation of …Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Lee and Jerry Zoldan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Jerry Zoldan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 30 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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