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The Irving and Varda Rabin 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 peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.

$416k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

90% of The Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $355k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
9
’18
7
’19
8
’20
9
’21
6
’22
2
’23
6
’24
4
’25

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, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.7MInternational$606kReligion$398kArts & Culture$159kEducation$113kEnvironment$111kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $354,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $415,741 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,241 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR$150,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$50,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL-MARIN$18,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$4,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$4,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$3,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES - SAN FRANCISCO: $11k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES - SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 10%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 33% of The Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 26%.

The Irving and Varda Rabin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-28%

Still filing today

92%
80%

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

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InternationalEducationArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TJ
    TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $106k · revenue +1%
  • BH
    BRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +10%
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    2× · 2021–2022 · $57k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
    one grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue -28%
  • UF
    UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM
    one grant, 2018 · $51k
  • NA
    NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue -42%
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 Judaism Foundation
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2
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

—
4
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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5
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
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Sherit Isroel
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10
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
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $510,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $450,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCA…THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $115,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS …American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $57,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of T…NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC: $43,000 · InternationalNORTH AMERICAN FRIEND…+4 more: $32,500 · InternationalCONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR: $243,369 · OtherCONGREGATION KO…HAZON INC: $89,250 · OtherHAZON INCUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $51,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFOR…JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $33,100 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNIT…Wilderness Torah: $22,500 · Other+3 more: $23,000 · OtherBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN: $98,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $15,000 · EducationThe Climate Center: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $105,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $28,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $15,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $106,146 · ReligionADAMAH INC: $25,500 · ReligionJEWISH LEARNINGWORKS: $7,000 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $36,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,710,000International$622,500Other$462,219Education$178,000Arts & Culture$154,000Religion$138,646Human Services$36,500

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $750,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $510,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $115,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $106,146 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBRANDEIS HILLEL DAY SCHOOL - MARIN: $98,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHAZON INC: $89,250 over 2y, 10% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $57,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC: $43,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $33,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADAMAH INC: $25,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWilderness Torah: $22,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Climate Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH LEARNINGWORKS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOPEACE MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL NGO FORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Fede…The Donald and Carole…The Jewish Community …The Shimon Ben Joseph…Koret FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Irving and Varda Rabin 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 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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