· Private foundation
Maccabee Task Force Foundation
The goal of MTFF is to educate the public in an effort to counter the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction the state of Israel ("BDS") 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Metro Chicago | $490,731 |
| Hillel of San Diego | $261,241 |
| Individual grant recipient | $257,433 |
| Hillels of Georgia | $197,942 |
| Boston University Hillel | $167,014 |
| Northeastern University Hillel | $153,515 |
| Hillel at the University of Vermont | $148,187 |
| North Carolina Hillel Foundation | $144,090 |
| Hillel at FSU Foundation Inc | $134,918 |
| Hillel Foundation of New Orleans | $133,000 |
| Rutgers Hillel Corp | $133,000 |
| B'nei Brith Hillel Foundation at Uc | $132,519 |
| Texas Hillel Foundation | $132,000 |
| Hillel Foundation at Indiana Univer | $130,185 |
| Kristol Center for Jewish Life | $129,564 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Maccabee Task Force 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $481k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +168%
- HOHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +57%
- HOHillels of Georgia Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +112% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- TATHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2019 · $270k · revenue -21%
- HAHillel at Kent Stateone grant, 2022 · $243k
- HJHillel Jewish Center-Pittsburghone grant, 2020 · $152k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Hillel of Colorado seeks to engage, empower, and work with Jewish college students to create Jewish communities at University of Denver, Colorado State University, Auraria Campus, Colorado School of Mines and other front range…
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
Enriching the lives of jewish students so that they may enrich the jewish people & the world hillel students leaders, professional & lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming & inclusive environment for jewish college…
To Enrich the lives of Jewish students on the UAlbany campus
Hillel of Buffalo serves the jewish community at the NYS University at Buffalo and encourages the participation of jewish students and faculty from all area colleges and universities. It is Hillel of Buffalo's mission to foster jewish…
Providing social and educational activities in order to create a community for Jewish students at Sonoma State University. Primary programs include celebrating Jewish holidays as a community, holding monthly Sabbath dinners (COVID…
social, religious, cultural programs for Jewish students at Bradley University
William and Mary Hillel reaches out to Jewish students on campus through a variety of programs on campus.
The mission of uri hillel is to enrich the lives of jewish students at the university of rhode island so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
To enhance jewish life for the university community.
Hillel at unm is the center for jewish student and young professional life in albuquerque, new mexico.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Southern California Hillel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mtf Leadership Institute. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
94 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. 94 of the 147 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENN HILLEL ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT VA TECH INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hillel ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds Hillel at Davis and Sacramento ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT BARUCH INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT FSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds American University Hillel Inc ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Hillel ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds George Mason University Hillel ↗
- Who funds BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL ADVISORY COUNCIL OF GREATER LONG BEACH AND WEST ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hillel at Binghamton Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Seed the Dream Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Birthright Israel Foundation · Israel on Campus Coalition Inc · Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation · The Jewish Federations of North America Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Milstein Family Foundation
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 Maccabee Task Force 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.
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.
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