· Public charity
The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation
Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY | $2,500,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND | $409,288 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY | $200,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $190,000 |
| PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $150,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $140,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $134,611 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $125,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOMEBUILDING FOUNDATION | $108,874 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION | $106,400 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FILM COLLABORATIVE INC | $90,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
167 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 138 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY7× · 2019–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +584%
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +196%
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- LDLIVING DESERT THEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $248k · revenue +47%
- BOBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +134%
- TPThe Park Theater Trustone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -41%
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.
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…
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Doctors Outreach Inc. 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 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
244 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. 244 of the 262 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds California Homebuilding Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL ↗
- Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE AT LIFE ALL BREED ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
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 Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · Jewish Communal Fund · John Pritzker Family Fund
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 The Donald and Carole Chaiken 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Keshet 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.