How much does The Nikoh Foundation give?

The Nikoh Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $587,655 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Nikoh Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (50%), International (13%), Religion (11%).

Who are The Nikoh Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc ($459k), Keshet ($386k), American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($380k).

Does The Nikoh Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Nikoh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Nikoh Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc.

Where is The Nikoh Foundation based?

The Nikoh Foundation is based in IL.

The Nikoh Foundation

The Nikoh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Nikoh 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.

$588k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$67k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.3MInternational$605kReligion$501kEducation$454kPhilanthropy$288kHuman Services$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kScience & Tech$50kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $40k
$10k–50k16 grants · $281k
$50k–250k5 grants · $267k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Israel Cancer Research Fund	$66,500
Jewish National Fund	$50,500
American Friends of Hebrew University	$50,000
Leukemia Research Foundation	$50,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	$50,000
Keshet	$40,000
American Technion Society	$25,000
Camp Kesem	$25,000
Friends of the IDF	$21,000
Vanderbilt Hillel	$20,261
Friends of United Hatzalah	$20,000
BBYO	$16,800
Jewish United Fund	$16,000
Slingshot Fund	$15,750
Jewish Fertility Foundation	$15,337

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.2M · 39 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+12%

Still filing today

51%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

IC
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $459k · revenue +52%
K
KESHET
8× · 2017–2024 · $386k · revenue +105%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +40%

Funded once

NI
NIGHTLIGHT INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +78%
JN
Jewish National Fund Aleh Negev
one grant, 2017 · $5k
RM
Role Model Movement Inc
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -78%

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.

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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Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services

United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York Inc

To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…

Philanthropy

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 96 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/58

Grantees still filing

35/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,894,119International$644,386Health$388,455Philanthropy$275,849Human Services$145,289Public Safety & Disaster$95,275Religion$85,700

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.

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 Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Fjc · The Selig Foundation Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Upstart Bay Area

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get 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

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home