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Libitzky Family Foundation

Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.

$1.7M
Granted FY2018
56
Grants FY2018
8
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

97% of Libitzky Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Libitzky Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 53 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

43
’17
53
’18
4
’19
3
’20
2
’21
3
’22
2
’23
2
’24
3
’25

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

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$12MInternational$2.0MReligion$445kPublic Benefit$300kEducation$268kArts & Culture$203kCivil Rights$195kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2018 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k20 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $399k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $540k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$600,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAY$157,500
AIPAC THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE$100,000
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND$77,500
THE MAGNES COLLECTION OF JEWISH ART AND LIFE$55,000
ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO$50,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY$30,000
AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERSHIP PROJECT$25,000
ISRAEL21C$25,000
MEMRI--MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
JEWISH FILM INSTITUTE$20,000
J THE JEWISH WEEKLY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$20,000
THE ISRAEL PROJECT$20,000
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 (FY17–18, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JCC EAST BAY: $10k → 10%JCC MACCABI SPORTS CAMP: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES - SAN FRANCISCO: $12k → 10%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

MN
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
DC
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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 69% of Libitzky Family 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. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Libitzky Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, 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

37
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

95%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $880k · revenue +45%
  • DM
    DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY FOR ISRAEL D/B/A DMFI
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +30%
  • CC
    CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • RE
    RESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • LJ
    Lehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • JI
    JIMENA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +214%

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
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…

—
2
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
7
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
8
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
11
New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International
12
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Bluestar Charitable Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr12%86%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/68
the rest of the field
14%
13,643/99,614

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.

05the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 68 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/66
Grantees still filing
40/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $11,500,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA+3 more — $30,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $880,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAE…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $600,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INS…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAE…+13 more — $303,500 · International+13 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY — $501,900 · OtherJEWISH COMM…DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY FOR ISRAEL D/B/A DMFI — $300,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC …BERKELEY HILLEL — $270,000 · OtherBERKELEY HI…CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND — $77,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $75,000 · Other+21 more — $364,933 · Other+21 moreCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationIsrael 21c — $45,000 · EducationSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationBAY AREA JEWISH ACTION — $25,000 · EducationOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $20,000 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationMAGNES MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $58,000 · Arts & CultureJewish Film Institute — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $20,200 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — $20,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT JEWISH WORLD CINEMA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureEAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY INC — $60,000 · Social ScienceJIMENA INC — $10,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $25,000 · Civil RightsUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA — $20,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$11,530,000International$1,978,500Other$1,589,333Education$230,000Arts & Culture$143,200Social Science$70,000Civil Rights$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $11,500,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $880,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $600,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY — $501,900 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetDEMOCRATIC MAJORITY FOR ISRAEL D/B/A DMFI — $300,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBERKELEY HILLEL — $270,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetMAGNES MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $58,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJCC PRIVATE SCHOOL INC — $48,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Film Institute — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERSHIP PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetBAY AREA JEWISH ACTION — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $20,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NATIONS WATCH - USA — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL — $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $11,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,133 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITIES OF WESTERN CT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HESCHEL CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUrban Adamah — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY — $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJIMENA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFuente Latina Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 Community Fede…Koret FoundationThe Jewish Community …Goodman Family Suppor…Jewish Community Foun…Newton & Rochelle Bec…Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…The Milstein Family F…Jewish Community Fede…The Donald and Carole…Combined Jewish Phila…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA52.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Koret Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · Goodman Family Supporting Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Milstein Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Libitzky 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    12report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Libitzky Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Libitzky Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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