· Private foundation
The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k104 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k69 grants · $6.9M
- $250k+63 grants · $54M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $4,000,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC | $3,000,000 |
| BNAI BRITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC | $3,000,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $2,875,000 |
| THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA | $2,500,000 |
| BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC | $2,000,000 |
| UPSTART BAY AREA | $2,000,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $1,750,000 |
| PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC | $1,500,000 |
| LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC | $1,250,000 |
| LEADING EDGE ALLIANCE INC | $1,030,000 |
| ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC | $1,000,000 |
| M2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION | $1,000,000 |
| SEFARIA INC | $1,000,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $9.7M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
186 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $35M · revenue +42%- BBB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION8× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +28%
- MHMOISHE HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +123% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $325k
NONPROFIT FINANCE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $270k · revenue -41%- ICIMPACT CUBEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $237k · revenue +116%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Wexner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
276 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. 276 of the 345 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UPSTART BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds PRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds LEADING EDGE ALLIANCEINC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ONWARD ISRAEL USA INC ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
- Who funds M2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds REBOOT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
- Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds WEXNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds SVARA ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) ↗
- Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
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: Covenant Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Koret Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Upstart Bay Area · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Rodan Family Foundation · Fjc
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 7% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Day School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
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.