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Smotrich Family Foundation at a glance

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Smotrich Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$497k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

International$1.3MReligion$673kHealth$241kEducation$66kArts & Culture$27kPhilanthropy$26kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$3,421
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$400,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$13,000
COLEL CHABAD$10,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$10,000
BIKUR CHOLIM OF PALM SPRINGS$10,000
UNITED HATZALAH$10,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS$5,000
SHAARE ZEDEK$5,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA$5,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$5,000
DESERT OUTREACH SYNAGOGUE$3,500
SINAI TEMPLE$3,421
JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF AMERICA$3,000
AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS$3,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $8k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
DC
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 52 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
27

Total granted

$2.1M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+10%

Still filing today

25%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    7× · 2018–2024 · $231k · revenue +77%
  • HA
    HILLEL AT UCLA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +108%
  • ZO
    ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
5
The Jerusalem Connection
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6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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8
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish University; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

25 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. 25 of the 85 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,105,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $110,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC+5 more: $51,000 · InternationalBETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $94,600 · OtherBETH JACOB CONGREGATIONDESERT OUTREACH SYNAGOGUE: $61,000 · OtherDESERT OUTREACH SYNAGOGUEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOGEN DAVID: $51,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOGEN DAVIDIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH ACADEMY OF LOS ANGELES: $41,800 · OtherCHABAD OF RANCHO MIRAGE: $38,000 · OtherAMER FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $38,000 · OtherHAMAKOM: $36,000 · OtherNEWPORT BEACH JEWISH CENTER: $31,000 · Other+56 more: $343,825 · Other+56 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $231,000 · HealthEisenhower …+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $4,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
International$1,266,000Other$785,225Health$232,000Arts & Culture$25,000Philanthropy$13,500Education$12,500Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $231,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILAN RAMON DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation Cou…California Community …Ellie and Mark Lainer…Jacoby Family Foundat…Bob & Nita Hirsch Fam…William & Anna Tenenb…The Michael and Lori …The Rosalinde and Art…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · California Community Foundation · Ellie and Mark Lainer Family Foundation · Jacoby Family Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · William & Anna Tenenblatt Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smotrich Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smotrich Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 85 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-PF 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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