· Private foundation
The Somekh Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC | $57,000 |
| ISRAAID | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDC | $50,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $25,000 |
| ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORESHET | $5,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
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.
129 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 8 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY7× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +51%
- OFOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +16%
- SVSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL7× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY SAN DIEGOone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SMSTANFORD MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TTAUone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 209 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 AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORESHET INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Israel 21c ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Dare Foundation · Koret Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trus · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation
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 Somekh Family 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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