· Private foundation
The Righteous Persons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of The Righteous Persons Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to University Of Southern California, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 22 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Righteous Persons Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH STORY PARTNERS | $500,000 |
| JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK | $250,000 |
| BEND THE ARC-A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE | $200,000 |
| REBOOT INC | $200,000 |
| JEWS OF COLOR INITIATIVE | $200,000 |
| JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC | $165,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY | $150,000 |
| T'RUAH | $150,000 |
| WESTERN STATES CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $125,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND INC | $100,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE INC | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $915k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JSJEWISH STORY PARTNERS4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +106% · 28% of their budget
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2017–2022 · $950k · revenue +78%
- JUJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $765k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $175k
- FCFILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $150k
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +44%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
67 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. 67 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH STORY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds KATAHDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds REBOOT INC ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWS OF COLOR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE CARD INC ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds The Witness Institute ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMMUD THE JOC TORAH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Proteus Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Dorot Foundation · New Israel Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Righteous Persons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Righteous Persons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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