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The Eisenberg Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| THE ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER | $54,000 |
| SAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $43,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTH - SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $28,333 |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $25,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO | $18,360 |
| MURRAY GALISON SAN DIEGO ISRAEL INITIATIVE | $18,000 |
| LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ETON ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF NOVI | $5,400 |
| SEACREST FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| HILLEL DAY SCHOOL | $5,100 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $4,445 |
| HEART2HART DETROIT | $1,800 |
| ST KIERAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $322k · revenue +53%
- SFSEACREST FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +232%
- OYOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TGTHE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $115k · revenue +5%
- SFSEACREST FOUNDATION - MUSIC OF THE HEART - UNDERWRITINGone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TCTRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -68%
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
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Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
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.
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Melvin Garb Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 81 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 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch ↗
- Who funds LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HEART 2 HART DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MELVIN GARB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOG AIDE ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK COOPERATIVE ↗
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 San Diego · Leichtag Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · David Kahan Family 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 The Eisenberg Family 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.
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.
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