· Private foundation
The Gerald and Reesa Niznick 2012 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of THE GERALD AND REESA NIZNICK 2012 FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
- $250k+1 grant · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA | $351,370 |
| VALLEY BETH SHALOM | $127,655 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA | $125,150 |
| RMLOW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $2,875 |
| FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS | $2,750 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA | $2,500 |
| TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| ISRAEL PARASPORT CENTER | $513 |
| FREINDS OF THE IDF | $472 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ORG | $360 |
| HUNTINGTON DISEASE SOCIETY FOR AMERICA | $100 |
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 US giving — 27% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 73% that went abroad ($5.1M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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
Beyond the US — 73% of all-years giving ($5.1M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Gerald and Reesa Niznick 2012 Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +113%
- DTDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $22k · revenue +5%
- BTBeit T'Shuvah8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -2%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue +115%- CFCANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2020 · $8k
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…
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…
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 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…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Rmlow 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 69 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 JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE WORLD'S JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RMLOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds CAMP DEL CORAZON INC ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds Urban Adamah ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE ↗
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 Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Gerald and Reesa Niznick 2012 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.
- Hands in for Youth 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.
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