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Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc

The purposes of this corporation are to provide relief for, and to minister to the physical well-being of needy persons in israel; to support and maintain public hospitals, clinics, to relieve sickness and distress, and to prevent plague and disease in israel; to support and maintain the hebrew university and other educational and…

$306M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$6.7MHealth$2.2MSocial Science$345kScience & Tech$221kEducation$149kPhilanthropy$95kArts & Culture$35k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,102,312, the rows itemized in this filing. The $305,679,736 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $304,577,424 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$83,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$210M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$400,236
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$400,150
NEW ISRAEL FUND$110,000
ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC$83,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$36,942
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$35,992
ORT AMERICA$35,992
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $175k → 17%AMERICAN SOC OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH DBA AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH: $185k → 9%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $110k → 17%AMERICAN SOC OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH DBA AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH: $161k → 9%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $92k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $54k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $51k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $31k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $16k → 17%ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $83k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $37k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $24k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $22k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $16k → 17%ORT AMERICA: $56k → 17%ORT AMERICA: $37k → 17%ORT AMERICA: $36k → 17%ORT AMERICA: $23k → 17%AMERICAN ORT FEDERATION: $22k → 17%ORT AMERICA: $22k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $140k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $53k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $36k → 17%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION-ISRAEL INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $28k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $23k → 17%UJA EMERGENCY FUND: $22k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $22k → 17%UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1.4M → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1.2M → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1.2M → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $900k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $701k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $400k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $300k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $250k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $250k → 17%AMERICAN RED MAGEN DAVID FOR ISRAEL: $22k → 17%AMERICAN RED MAGEN DAVID FOR ISRAEL: $14k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $400k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $321k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $300k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $300k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $300k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $300k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $300k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $300k → 17%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $101k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 5 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
1

Total granted

$3.5M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+114%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
InternationalPhilanthropySocial ScienceHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +52%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    6× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +206%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IH
    ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $83k · revenue +114%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
10
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
11
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Society of Overseas Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,608,598 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INCNEW ISRAEL FUND: $538,536 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND+2 more: $356,853 · InternationalISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $2,622,974 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND I…ORT AMERICA: $219,319 · OtherORT AMERICAAMERICAN SOCIETY OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH: $345,239 · Social ScienceUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $130,730 · PhilanthropyISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 · Health
International$7,503,987Other$2,842,293Social Science$345,239Philanthropy$130,730Health$83,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,608,598 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $2,622,974 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $538,536 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF OVERSEAS RESEARCH: $345,239 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $221,473 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $135,380 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $130,730 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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