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Navias 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Navias Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Aspen Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 54 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Navias Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 64 organizations, $375k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k74 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION | $121,100 |
| CONGREGATION BETH TORAH | $30,600 |
| SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY | $10,800 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $10,760 |
| DALLAS OPERA | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SEACREST FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| JACOBS AND CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $7,400 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| WOODALL ROGERS PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $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 (FY20–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- AJAspen Jewish Center5× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +96%
- SFSEACREST FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +232%
- TDThe Dallas Opera5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- AEASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +123%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLASgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +27%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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…
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…
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…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
To be your partner and trusted expert in charitable giving and effective philanthropy by empowering our community's charitable vision, safeguarding our community's resources and building enduring legacies.
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
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…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Honey Foundation for Israel. 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 44 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 — 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.
86 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. 86 of the 112 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 ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
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 Community Foundation of San Diego · Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Mankoff Family Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100
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 Navias 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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