· Private foundation
SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA | $135,000 |
| WASHINGTON INST FOR NEAR E POLICY | $105,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $60,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DIST | $35,000 |
| JEWISH WORLD WATCH | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $26,800 |
| LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING | $25,000 |
| TZEDEK AMERICA | $25,000 |
| DISABILITY VOICES UNITED | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS LAW CNTR OF LOS ANGELES | $12,500 |
| WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDIASI | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
52 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 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; $119k 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
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $152k · revenue +30%
- TATZEDEK AMERICA4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +989%
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +34%
- AJAmer Jewish Joint Distribution Committeeone grant, 2021 · $32k
- LFLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +22%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 109 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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK AMERICA ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Disability Voices United ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAMIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Center for Justice ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds THE AUSCHWITZ JEWISH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
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 Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ruby Family Foundation · The Field Family Fund · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · Hochberg Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Winkler Lowy Foundation
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 SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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.