· Private foundation
Robert and Michelle Diener Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $413k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD ON CAMPUS | $413,310 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $175,000 |
| AISH HATORAH INC | $155,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $144,300 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALA | $138,180 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $108,000 |
| TEMPLE MENORAH | $100,000 |
| LEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| POSNACK DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICE OF S FLORIDA | $60,700 |
| JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH S FL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CHABAD OF TULANE | $26,000 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $25,000 |
| YEHUDI | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +12% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $767k · revenue +72%
- MCMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM6× · 2018–2023 · $337k · revenue +42%
- LCLEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY CORNELL LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $80k
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $18k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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.
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…
To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Childhood Cancer Project. 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 31 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 117 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Yehudi Inc ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED 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: Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Chester Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Russell & Ronalee Galbut Family Foundation Inc · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
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 Robert and Michelle Diener 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 Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- True North Classical Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 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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