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The Rachel & Barney Gottstein Foundation at a glance

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The Rachel & Barney Gottstein 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.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$330kReligion$131kHuman Services$127kHealth$120kFood & Nutrition$82kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND$20,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS$20,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE WELFARE OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS$12,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$12,000
LANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND$10,000
LEV CHABAD INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Israel Guide Dog Ctr for the Blind: $25k → 6%Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind: $25k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $12k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 14 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$546k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+49%

Still filing today

71%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +65%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +181%
  • AC
    Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
    4× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
—
2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations

International
9
American Friends of Latet Humanitarian Aid Inc

None

International
10
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim Inc

Encourage and promote the study and observance of jewish religious traditions and culture through seminars, newsletters, tours, internet and website, support various children's activities, provide aid for security equipment in support of…

International
12
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc; the most unlike its peers is Anchorage Park Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $230,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $62,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC+2 more: $20,100 · Philanthropy+2 moreAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $70,000 · OtherAlaska Center for the Blind and Vis…LUBAVICH JEWISH CENTER OF ALASKA: $51,700 · OtherLUBAVICH JEWISH CENTER OF ALASKALubavitch Jewish Center of Alaska: $39,000 · OtherLubavitch Jewish Center of AlaskaIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAmer Friends of Chaiyanu: $20,000 · OtherAmer Friends of ChaiyanuTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE WELFARE OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS: $17,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE WELFARE OF H…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $16,588 · Other+8 moreFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $80,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRA…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $110,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE D…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBeans Cafe Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLANIADO DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthLEV CHABAD INC: $8,700 · Health
Philanthropy$312,100Other$269,288International$120,000Human Services$110,000Arts & Culture$20,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Health$18,700

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $230,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $110,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $70,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $62,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAIYANU: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEV CHABAD INC: $8,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Rachel & Barney Gottstein Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rachel & Barney Gottstein Foundation 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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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