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The Roklen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$426kInternational$149kReligion$42kAnimals$14kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$8kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$139k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$63,600
FRIENDS OF ELNET$5,000
Israel Guide Dog Center$1,800
WOODBRIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATI$165
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Israel Guide Dog Center: $4k → 6%Israel Guide Dog Center: $3k → 6%Israel Guide Dog Center: $2k → 6%Israel Guide Dog Center: $2k → 6%Israel Guide Dog Center: $2k → 6%Israel Guide Dog Center: $2k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELE: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$651k · 27 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
12

Total granted

$651k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+55%

Still filing today

52%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ELNET
    8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +97%
  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +65%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EU LEADERSHIP NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
Jlens

Jlens empowers investors to align their capital with jewish values and advocates for jewish communal priorities in the corporate arena. (see sch. o)jlens promotes investing through a jewish lens and aims to increase the jewish community's…

Religion
4
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
5
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
11
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
12
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND — $424,934 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUNDAMIT CHARITY — $36,084 · OtherAMIT CHARITY+23 more — $56,073 · Other+23 moreFRIENDS OF ELNET — $109,860 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNETAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $8,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TH…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $6,320 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,050 · International+2 more — $5,470 · InternationalISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $13,481 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $2,500 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,750 · HealthNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,000 · EnvironmentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,300 · Civil Rights
Other$517,091International$135,300Human Services$13,731Arts & Culture$6,500Health$2,750Environment$2,500Civil Rights$2,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $109,860 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $13,481 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $8,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $6,320 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $2,970 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $1,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION — $1,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FRIENDS OF ELNET
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds WATERORG
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RELIGION
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Roklen Foundation 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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