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The Wilf Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+11 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $3,035,008 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL (JAFI) | $2,185,000 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL (JAFI) | $1,001,800 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC | $500,000 |
| PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE | $450,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HOLOCAUST REMEBRANCE | $250,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $200,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $200,000 |
| HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% 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 33% of The Wilf Family 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. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
108 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +39%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +4%
Vanderbilt University2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +10%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ FOR JFNAone grant, 2023 · $2.5M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +87%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $500k
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.
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…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
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Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and 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…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
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…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing 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 38 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 287 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA VIKINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER UNION COUNTY % JULIENNE CHERRY ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
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: Law Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj · The Mark and Jane Wilf Family Foundation Inc
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 Wilf 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N — 52% of income from government
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Golda Och Academy — 0% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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