· Private foundation
The Kedar Family and Zoltan Sonesh 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: 46% of THE KEDAR FAMILY AND ZOLTAN SONESH 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 $10k15 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALO GLOBAL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY | $10,010 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC | $10,000 |
| GAVIN FARRELL FOUNDATION | $7,523 |
| JGIVE FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC | $6,000 |
| TIBET FUND | $5,500 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT | $5,146 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MEET | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
| SUNRISE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION (WISE) | $5,000 |
| HAIR TO STAY | $5,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTHAMPTON JEWISH CENTER | $2,800 |
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 human-services grants (FY23–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
- WIWORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +61%
- HHAIRTOSTAY5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +73%
- IAINNOVATION AFRICA3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TTENDRELone grant, 2020 · $162k
- SFSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUNDone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +15%
- MAMEET AC INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +200%
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.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and 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…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…
To promote and support the rambam health care campus-the premier medical center in northern israel.
Friends of israeli flying aid, inc. raises funds to provide funding to a charitable organization in israel, israeli flying aid, for its charitable mission of supplying humanitarian aid and medical assistance in war torn areas of the world.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The american friends of the heschel center, inc., envisions a just and sustainable society in israel, with full participation of all its diverse inhabitants and in productive dialogue with american individuals and organizations engaged in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meet Ac Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 49% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 CALO GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds MEET AC INC ↗
- Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION AFRICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds THE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds GAVIN FARRELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Kedar Family and Zoltan Sonesh 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.
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- Meet Ac Inc — 3% 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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