· Private foundation
Nathan and Esther K Wagner 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $172,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ELNET | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAELI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STANDWITHUS | $21,600 |
| PEF ISRAELS ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND FOR ISRAEL | $15,000 |
| CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS | $14,130 |
| BRAVER ANGELS | $14,000 |
| CHEF ANN FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION - ILLINOIS | $12,480 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $10,000 |
| HETERODOX ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL JEWISH PHILANTHROPY | $7,500 |
| COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING AND ANALYSIS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY7× · 2017–2024 · $813k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF ELNET4× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +97%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CCCREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PEACEone grant, 2017 · $15k
- IHILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- USUNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISMone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
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.
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…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena for fourth sector in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge,…
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.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The Impact Forum is an exclusive network of philanthropists. We are connecting philanthropists that support each others initiatives and collaborate to empower and meet with exceptional non-profit organizations to fight antisemitism,…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Joy As Resistance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 36 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 WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Jumpstart Labs Inc DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Braver AngelsInc ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds THE EMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ASPIRITECH NFP ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JOY AS RESISTANCE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THERAPY THROUGH THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds AI FOR GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Nathan and Esther K Wagner 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.
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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