· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 73% of all-years giving ($5.1M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Gerald and Reesa Niznick 2012 Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +67%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- 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 JEWISH REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gerald and Reesa Niznick 2012 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerald and Reesa Niznick 2012 Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hands in for Youth Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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