· Public charity
The Opaline Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF BARCELONA IN THE USA | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- IIIMMATERIAL INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +47% · 65% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue ×12 · 39% of their budget
- UAUrban Adamah6× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- RIREBOOT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +87%
- CECHABAD EAST DC JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $40k
- HHAZON2× · 2017–2018 · $36k
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.
To cultivate the social, cultural, and spiritual well-being of Jewish farmers.
We are building community through hands-on food systems education rooted in Jewish text, tradition and culture. We support Jewish institutions to create initiatives such as learning gardens, run experiential programs, and host pluralistic…
The jewish farm school teaches about contemporary food and environmental issues through innovative trainings and skill-based jewish agricultural education.
The institute of soil and soul is a nonprofit jewish community farm that practices regenerative agriculture, donates all of its produce to local food pantries, and provides agricultural education rooted in jewish wisdom. our mission is to…
Judaism unbound is a digitally driven, radically open center for education and serves as a catalyst for an entirely new era of judaism. we empower regular jews who are to develop new ways of living jewishly.
The organization was formed to operate to develop and disseminate a narrative of jewry and judaism that can sustain jewish identity of jews fully integrated in post-modern culture. the institute's program will help translate the narrative…
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…
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 Kav LNoar Foundation. 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 20 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 63 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.
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- Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds Urban Adamah ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yiddish Farm Educational Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUKKAT SHALEYM INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
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- Who funds The Spikenard Farm Inc ↗
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- Who funds REBOOT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHED CAPITAL ↗
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- Who funds AMIGOS DEL CENTRO DE EDUCACION AMBIENTAL DE LA PENINSULA YUCATECA ↗
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
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- Who funds UNITED PLANT SAVERS ↗
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- Who funds THE NATURE FOUNDATION AT WINTERGREEN ↗
- Who funds Kav LNoar Foundation ↗
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: The Orphiflamme Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Communal Fund · The Polis Schutz Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Friedman Family Charitable Trust · Upstart Bay Area · Covenant Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
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 Opaline Fund 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.
- Adamah Inc — 10% 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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