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The Rabbi Arthur a Jacobovitz Institute at a glance

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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.

$200k
Granted FY2019
28
Grants FY2019
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

International$210kReligion$69kPhilanthropy$47kArts & Culture$35kHuman Services$33kEducation$18kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2019 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $192,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k20 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Institute for Jewish Ideas & Ideals$15,000
Stand With Us Northwest$12,500
Jewish Family Service$12,500
University of Washington Foundation Stroum Center for Jewish Studies$10,000
Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life University of Washington$10,000
Central Fund of Israel$10,000
Central Fund of Israel$10,000
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee$10,000
Central Fund of Israel$7,500
American Friends of OR National Mission - USA$7,500
Central Fund of Israel$7,500
Holocaust Center for Humanity$7,500
Jewish National Fund$7,500
P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc.$7,500
One Family Fund USA$5,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 9 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$266k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+46%

Still filing today

89%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +145%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +107%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Washington Foundation Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • HF
    Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life University of Washington
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.

03Its 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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Jewish Life Foundation
—
4
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
7
Jewish Mothers of Metropolitan Seattle
Religion
8
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
9
The Jerusalem Connection
—
10
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
—
11
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
12
Israel Select Charity Fund Inc

Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Central Fund of Israel: $90,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $22,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $22,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEIS…FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDIThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Co…American Friends of OR National Mission USA: $22,500 · OtherAmerican Friends of OR Na…Holocaust Center For Humanity: $17,500 · OtherHolocaust Center For Huma…University of Washington Foundation Stroum Center for Jewish Studies: $15,000 · OtherUniversity of Washington …Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life University of Washington: $10,000 · OtherHillel Foundation for Jew…Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington: $8,500 · OtherHillel Foundation for Jew…Jewish Community Funding: $5,000 · OtherJewish Community FundingOne Family Fund USA: $5,000 · OtherOne Family Fund USAUNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM: $5,000 · OtherUNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSE…+2 more: $5,000 · Other+2 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMEN…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $16,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION O…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC: $45,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $32,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…Israel Magen Fund Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesIsrael Ma…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationJewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc: $2,500 · Social Science
International$155,000Other$93,500Philanthropy$74,000Religion$45,000Human Services$35,000Education$17,500Social Science$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $16,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington: $8,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Samis FoundationJewish Communal FundR & H Rosen Family Fo…Newman Family Foundat…Tillie & Alfred Shema…Jewish Federation of …Seattle FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Samis FoundationWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.
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Find your warmest path to The Rabbi Arthur a Jacobovitz Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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