· Private foundation
The Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $40,000 |
| American Friends of IDF Widows & Orphans | $7,000 |
| Hadassah | $5,000 |
| Israel on Campus Coallition | $3,000 |
| ADL | $3,000 |
| Hillel International | $3,000 |
| American Friends of Ogen | $3,000 |
| UJA Federation of NY | $2,500 |
| Colel Chabad | $2,000 |
| North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry | $1,000 |
| Israel Guide Dog Center | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAmerican Friends of MAGE3× · 2021–2024 · $99k
- UFUJS FEDERATION OF NY5× · 2017–2023 · $49k
- HHADASSAH6× · 2018–2025 · $47k
Funded once
- GMGREATER MIAMI JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $16k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDSA OF MAGone grant, 2020 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
To educate about antisemitism and the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.
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 new israel fund (nif) helps israel live up to its founders' vision of a society that ensures complete equality to all its inhabitants. our aim is to advance liberal democracy, including freedom of speech and minority rights, and to…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 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.
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nathan & Helen Kohler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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