Washington, D.C. · Public charity
New Israel Fund
The NEW ISRAEL FUND (nif) helps israel live up to its founders' vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. Our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to fight the inequality, injustice and extremism that diminish israel.
- $36M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 90
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $768,777
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $53M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 68% of the organizations New Israel Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 76 | $4.0M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $2.1M | 68% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $836k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $818k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $480k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.5M | 88% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $768,777 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $707,372 | 1 | 0% |
| Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc | $635,000 | 5 | 81% |
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $462,450 | 4 | 3% |
| Encounter Programs Inc | $435,180 | 4 | 7% |
| Women Donors Network | $435,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Kitchen Slow Down Jew Up | $270,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mindful Birthing and Parenting Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ayin Institute Inc | $245,250 | 2 | 29% |
| Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice | $234,460 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 146 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
New Israel Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Topol Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Koret Foundation
How this is measured
About New Israel Fund
- How much does New Israel Fund give?
- New Israel Fund reported 90 itemized grants totaling $4,594,667, out of $35,807,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does New Israel Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (34%), Civil Rights (9%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are New Israel Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: International Rescue Committee INC ($769k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($707k), Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc ($635k).
- Does New Israel Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as New Israel Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation, Topol Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is New Israel Fund based?
- New Israel Fund is based in DC.
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