· Public charity
Shelters for Israel
Founded in 1948, Shelters for Israels mission is to provide funding for vital projects, programs, and facilities in Israel to support the neediest populations, with a focus on improving the lives of children and the elderly, including Holocaust survivors.Shelters for Israel has always been and remains an all-volunteer organization with…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brothers and Sisters for Isra | $73,500 |
| ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDENTION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MED | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN ZIONIST MOVEMENT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL | $25,000 |
| SHANTI HOUSE | $25,000 |
| WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MERKAZ KEHILIATI GDEROT | $11,200 |
| THE GIMEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEPHARADIC EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHAYAL EL CHAYAL | $8,000 |
| MEROMIM ISRAEL | $7,125 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 74% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 26% that went abroad ($508k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 26% of all-years giving ($508k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IHISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDENTIO2× · 2022–2023 · $420k
- SHSHANTI HOUSE2× · 2023–2024 · $250k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC2× · 2019–2020 · $230k · revenue +387%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +44%
- EDEIN DERECHone grant, 2023 · $40k
- PEPEF ENDOWMENT FUNDSone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To further jewish education in israel
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To provide for the needs of the great synagogue in jerusalem israel.
None
To promote and support jewish religious educational activities in israel.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER IN JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Zionist Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Gimmel Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAYAL EL CHAYAL INC ↗
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 Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shelters for Israel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelters for Israel. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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