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The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation at a glance

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The Erwin Rautenberg 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of The Jewish Federation Council Of Greater Los Angeles, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 22 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$10.0MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$1.4MReligion$1.3MInternational$733kArts & Culture$672kEmployment$470kFood & Nutrition$285kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $601k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $973k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA$700,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA$700,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA$350,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE$155,000
THE HOLOCAUST MUSIUM LA$137,500
JVS SOCAL$110,000
MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$100,000
LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH$100,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$70,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI$60,000
SHALOM INSTITUE CAMP AND COMFERENCE$50,000
YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET$45,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $408k) 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%THE JENESSE CENTER: $5k → 14%THE JENESSE CENTER: $5k → 14%THE JENESSE CENTER: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $155k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $155k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $81k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $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

IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
TN
NC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Erwin Rautenberg Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 42 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
16

Total granted

$6.6M
$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

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

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

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InternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JS
    JVS SOCAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +56%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $393k · revenue +55%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING
    4× · 2020–2023 · $311k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF LA
    one grant, 2020 · $650k
  • UH
    UCLA HILLEL
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • BM
    BJE MARCH OF THE LIVING SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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.

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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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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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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
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Sherit Isroel
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The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
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Jlens

Jlens empowers investors to align their capital with jewish values and advocates for jewish communal priorities in the corporate arena. (see sch. o)jlens promotes investing through a jewish lens and aims to increase the jewish community's…

Religion
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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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Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
10
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Braid Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $5,904,323 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELESJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $3,331,700 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA+4 more: $321,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF LA: $650,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY PROGRAM OF LAJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $550,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGEL…Individual grant recipient: $463,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCEDARS SINAI ADVANCEMENT: $400,000 · OtherCEDARS SINAI ADVANCEMENTYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $265,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI: $240,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH: $200,000 · OtherCHAMAH: $185,000 · OtherSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $220,000 · Other+45 more: $1,957,590 · Other+45 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $295,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC: $200,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET: $83,800 · International+2 more: $17,900 · InternationalHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $433,500 · Arts & CultureSHAREWELL: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJVS SOCAL: $470,000 · EmploymentJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $393,200 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $310,630 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$9,557,023Other$5,130,940International$596,700Arts & Culture$503,500Employment$470,000Human Services$408,200Community Improvement$310,630

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $5,904,323 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $3,331,700 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $470,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $433,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $393,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $310,630 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $295,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $220,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC: $200,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $150,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $124,968 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $83,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBraid Foundation: $80,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHAREWELL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJQ INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE VILLAGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE GLOBAL PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE TO LEARN TO GROW FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAAPLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $7,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER: $2,559 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
  • Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds Braid Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
  • Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗

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 …The Stanley & Joyce B…The Cayton-Goldrich F…Warren and Elaine Bre…The Rosalinde and Art…Liberty Hill Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…Lynn & Les Bider Fami…Goldrich Family Found…The Diane and Guilfor…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA22.6× affinity9 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 · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Cayton-Goldrich Family Foundation · Warren and Elaine Breslow Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · Goldrich Family Foundation · The Diane and Guilford Glazer 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 Erwin Rautenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Erwin Rautenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 72 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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