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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.

$329k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$369kHealth$239kInternational$185kReligion$156kHuman Services$126kEducation$99kAnimals$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
$1,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SEACREST FOUNDATION$5,400
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF NOVI$5,400
HILLEL DAY SCHOOL$5,100
CONGREGATION BETH EL$4,445
HEART2HART DETROIT$1,800
ST KIERAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%THE KINDNESS INITIATIVE: $1k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50 → 8%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%HEART2HART DETROIT: $5k → 8%HEART 2 HEART DETROIT: $4k → 8%HEART2HART DETROIT: $2k → 8%HEART 2 HART DETROIT: $1k → 8%HEART 2 HART DETROIT: $1k → 8%HEART 2 HART DETROIT: $1k → 8%HEART 2 HART DETROIT: $1k → 8%HEART2HART DETROIT: $1k → 8%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

IL
MI
NY
PA
CA
UT
NC
DC
GA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$843k · 28 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
40

Total granted

$843k
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+40%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $322k · revenue +53%
  • SF
    SEACREST FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +232%
  • OY
    Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch
    4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $115k · revenue +5%
  • SF
    SEACREST FOUNDATION - MUSIC OF THE HEART - UNDERWRITING
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TC
    TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -68%
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
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
2
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

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

—
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
University of Judaism Foundation
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8
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

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…

—
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
10
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
11
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 81 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INC: $115,000 · OtherTHE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INCSAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INC: $106,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO JEWISH EXPERIENCE INCJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATIONJEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $44,400 · OtherJEWISH SENIOR LIFEMURRAY GALISON SAN DIEGO ISRAEL INITIATIVE: $36,000 · OtherMURRAY GALISON SAN DIEGO ISRAEL INITIATIVETRINITY HEALTH - SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $28,333 · OtherYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH: $25,000 · OtherSEACREST FOUNDATION - MUSIC OF THE HEART - UNDERWRITING: $25,000 · Other+47 more: $107,423 · Other+47 moreHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $322,260 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INCTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DI…+5 more: $17,040 · Arts & CultureOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $43,860 · EducationOholei Yo…HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $21,700 · EducationHILLEL DA…Eton Academy: $20,500 · EducationEton Acad…JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10,100 · EducationJEAN AND …+1 more: $100 · EducationSEACREST FOUNDATION: $73,270 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyLIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesHEART 2 HART DETROIT INC: $15,400 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,050 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $11,100 · Religion+1 more: $360 · ReligionPUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Health+3 more: $300 · Health
Other$577,156Arts & Culture$369,300Education$96,260Philanthropy$73,370Human Services$53,950Religion$11,460Health$6,300

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 budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $322,260 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GEORGE G GLENNER ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTERS INC: $115,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION: $73,270 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $43,860 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $21,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEton Academy: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO: $18,540 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHEART 2 HART DETROIT INC: $15,400 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $11,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $8,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSundance Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $4,640 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMELVIN GARB FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOG AIDE: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $2,590 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPERIMENTAL FARM NETWORK COOPERATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL LAWRENCE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL OF SACRAMENTO: $820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Farmer Network: $360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNFX: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPenn Highlands Healthcare Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50 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.

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…Leichtag FoundationShari & Alon Friendsh…The Bruce H and Rosal…Pappas Foundation IncHarold and Penny B Bl…Edward C and Linda Dr…The San Diego Foundat…The Irving and Ethel …Mickey Shapiro Charit…Woll-Yellin Family Fo…David Kahan Family Fo…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Eisenberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eisenberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to The Eisenberg Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Eisenberg Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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