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Shoresh 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.

$726k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$968kEducation$915kReligion$658kInternational$434kPhilanthropy$175kCrime & Legal$144kArts & Culture$112kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $189k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $494k
$3,600
Median grant
11
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$104,400
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$60,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$60,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$60,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (ACCFB)$60,000
THE SHALEM FOUNDATION$50,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$36,000
TIDES CENTERSHALOM BAYIT$25,000
DIRECT RELIEF$20,000
ISRAID (US) GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC$20,000
IKAR$17,216
HIAS$10,360
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATERNET ARCHIVE: $360 → 10%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $360 → 22%PROJECT HOME: $360 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 10%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH HOSPICE: $720 → 14%TIDES CENTERSHALOM BAYIT: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
WV
MD
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 41 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
49

Total granted

$3.4M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+18%

Still filing today

71%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • OH
    Oakland Hebrew Day School
    6× · 2017–2024 · $628k · revenue +84%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    6× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +74%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $218k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY
    one grant, 2017 · $112k · revenue -100%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2022 · $36k
  • TO
    THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -19%

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

04Your field

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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The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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2
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

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5
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
6
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles Inc

Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Equine Therapy ProgramsYouth Development CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr11%44%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,893

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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/80
Grantees still filing
59/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IKAR — $505,216 · OtherIKARSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $255,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $250,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (ACCFB) — $170,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (ACCFB)JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY — $111,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAYBETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND — $100,960 · OtherBETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $85,000 · Other+65 more — $406,430 · Other+65 moreOakland Hebrew Day School — $628,200 · EducationOakland Hebrew Day SchoolJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $150,000 · EducationJewish Commmunity High Schoo…ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $53,000 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN+9 more — $83,513 · Education+9 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $218,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TH…DIRECT RELIEF — $118,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFHIAS INC — $45,860 · InternationalHIAS INCWorldwide Friends Foundation — $15,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 · International+3 more — $10,720 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $2,080 · PhilanthropyThe Shalem Foundation — $127,500 · Crime & Legal+4 more — $2,440 · Crime & LegalISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $90,700 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,884,106Education$914,713International$422,580Philanthropy$132,080Crime & Legal$129,940Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Arts & Culture$96,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOakland Hebrew Day School — $628,200 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $255,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $218,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay — $150,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation — $127,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $118,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY — $111,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $90,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $45,860 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $17,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLehrhaus Judaica dba HAMAQOM The Place — $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetISRALIGHT SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $10,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $10,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL — $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies — $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter For Gender And Refugee Studies- California Inc — $3,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIMBAM — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH HOSPICE — $720 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The Jewish Community …Jewish Community Fede…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Koret FoundationThe Yelp FoundationJewish Communal FundCalifornia Community …The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…The California Wellne…Impactassetsinc
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA26.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · California Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Shoresh 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Shoresh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shoresh Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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