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The Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting Foundation

Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$540kInternational$530kEducation$315kOther$672k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $138,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $159,058 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,058 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$60,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND$23,300
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
ISRAEL21C$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC)$10,000
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND$8,000
SALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMY$6,700
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND: $100k → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC): $10k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND: $50k → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC): $10k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $24k → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC): $10k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND: $24k → 10%ISRAEL21C: $15k → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND: $23k → 10%ISRAEL21C: $10k → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC (JDC): $10k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND: $23k → 10%ISRAEL21C: $10k → 10%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH: $70k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $21k → 10%ISRAEL 21C: $10k → 10%NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH: $10k → 17%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 14%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $19k → 10%ISRAEL21C: $10k → 10%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $19k → 10%ISRAEL21C: $10k → 10%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND: $18k → 10%ISRAEL21C: $10k → 10%BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND: $17k → 10%CHABAD OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $100k → 10%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND: $10k → 10%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND: $9k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $300k → 10%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND: $8k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $100k → 10%CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND: $8k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $60k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $30k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $25k → 10%CHABAD OF THE EAST BAY: $28k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $25k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAY: $30k → 10%OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $49k → 10%OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $40k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of The Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting 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. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.4% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 11 repeat orgs$251k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+44%

Still filing today

36%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalOther

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

  • OH
    Oakland Hebrew Day School
    2× · 2018–2019 · $89k · revenue +57%
  • I2
    Israel 21c
    7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +15%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue -47%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF S FRANCISCO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF THE EAST BAY
    one grant, 2020 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
2
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
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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…

5
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

6
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
7
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc

(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.

Education
8
Hillel of Silicon Valley Inc

Hillel of silicon valley provides a welcoming, supportive environmentto enrich students' college experience and enable them to connect with the jewish community and israel.

9
Jewish Federation of the Sacra

To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.

Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
11
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND — $237,680 · OtherBETH JACOB CONGREGATION OF OAKLANDCHABAD SYNAGOGUES INC — $111,000 · OtherCHABAD SYNAGOGUES INCCHABAD OF S FRANCISCO INC — $100,000 · OtherCHABAD OF S FRANCISCO INCUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA — $80,000 · OtherUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATION…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY — $43,250 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GR…CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF OAKLAND — $34,000 · OtherCHABAD OF THE EAST BAY — $27,500 · Other+3 more — $38,400 · Other+3 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $540,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION O…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $470,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOU…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $60,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Dis…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $120,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CAL…Oakland Hebrew Day School — $88,574 · EducationOakland Hebrew Da…Israel 21c — $75,000 · EducationIsrael 21cTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…+1 more — $1,000 · Education
Other$671,830Philanthropy$540,000International$530,000Education$314,574

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $540,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $470,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School — $88,574 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIsrael 21c — $75,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY — $43,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Oakland Hebrew Day School
  • Who funds Israel 21c
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HILLEL
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Community Foundation · Shoresh Foundation · Koret Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gerald S and Miriam M Friedkin Supporting 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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