· Private foundation
The Rabbi Arthur a Jacobovitz Institute
Its FY2019 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $192,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $200,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k20 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Institute for Jewish Ideas & Ideals | $15,000 |
| Stand With Us Northwest | $12,500 |
| Jewish Family Service | $12,500 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $10,000 |
| Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life University of Washington | $10,000 |
| University of Washington Foundation Stroum Center for Jewish Studies | $10,000 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | $10,000 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $10,000 |
| American Friends of OR National Mission - USA | $7,500 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $7,500 |
| P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc. | $7,500 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $7,500 |
| Holocaust Center for Humanity | $7,500 |
| Jewish National Fund | $7,500 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $5,000 |
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 +145% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- CFCentral Fund of Israel3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +145%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +107%
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Washington Foundation Stroum Center for Jewish Studiesone grant, 2019 · $15k
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +24%- HFHillel Foundation for Jewish Life University of Washingtonone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holocaust Center for Humanity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance 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: Samis Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · R & H Rosen Family Foundation · Newman Family Foundation · Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Seattle Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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.
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