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Upstart Bay Area

To accelerate growth, nurture ideas, and advance new experiences for the jewish community by connecting impact-driven entrepreneurs to expertise, community, and capital.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$277k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.1MReligion$1.8MArts & Culture$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.4MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$441kHealth$422kHuman Services$377kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $1,829,923 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,955,441 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $125,518 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $314k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $277k
$30,899
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FJC - A Foundation of Philan$276,997
GATHER CONSULTING$235,500
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$103,862
JEWFOLK INC$101,350
TIDES CENTER$101,117
JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION$101,072
LEHRHAUS$100,511
AMMUD THE JOC TORAH ACADEMY$100,000
THEIRSTORY INC$100,000
CONSCIOUS BUILDERS$86,900
Embodied Jewish Learning$80,308
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Ren$60,000
THE EFSHAR PROJECT$50,350
Mitsui Collective$40,000
The InHEIRitance Project$33,249
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, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELOVED BUILDERS: $23k → 12%Taamod: $11k → 11%Tivnu Building Justice: $75k → 12%BOULDER JCC: $7k → 12%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $75k → 8%Tivnu Building Justice: $25k → 12%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $25k → 8%Taamod: $91k → 11%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $20k → 8%TischPDX Unaffiliated Jewish: $16k → 12%Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom: $13k → 8%Libenu: $25k → 14%Libenu: $15k → 14%Libenu: $10k → 14%SHEFA: $90k → 10%Gender Equity in Hiring Proje: $12k → 17%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

ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Upstart Bay Area’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.

Upstart Bay Arealessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 53 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
37

Total granted

$7.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $607k 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
ReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • 4E
    4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +210% · 74% of their budget
  • TG
    TRYBAL GATHERINGS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $377k · revenue +97% · 40% of their budget
  • TM
    Tkiya Music Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $180k · revenue +68% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • BI
    BOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +7%
  • BB
    BELOVED BUILDERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $141k · revenue +120%
  • 7F
    70 FACES MEDIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue +99%

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.

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Institute for the Next Jewish Future Injf

Judaism unbound is a digitally driven, radically open center for education and serves as a catalyst for an entirely new era of judaism. we empower regular jews who are to develop new ways of living jewishly.

Arts & Culture
2
Jewish Center for Justice

Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to…

Human Services
3
J Leaders

Our vision is to develop ethical, impactful Jewish young adult leaders to ensure a vibrant Jewish community and make the world a better place. Our mission is to empower and engage Jewish young adults through leadership development and…

Youth Development
4
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
5
The Jewish Wisdom Foundation

To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…

Education
6
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
7
Institute for Jewish Spirituality Inc

Ijs's mission is to develop and teach jewish spiritual practices so that individuals and communities may experience greater awareness, purpose, and interconnection.

Religion
8
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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9
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
10
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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11
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
12
University of Judaism Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judaism Your Way and the most unlike its peers is Rappers and Rebbes Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Pregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%44%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/102
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,463

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.

05the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 103 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/78
Grantees still filing
54/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crystal City Entertainment — $800,000 · OtherCrystal City EntertainmentEmbodied Jewish Learning — $533,897 · OtherEmbodied Jewish LearningGATHER CONSULTING — $251,860 · OtherGATHER CONSULTINGRakia Media LLC — $227,829 · OtherUPSTART BAY AREA — $166,600 · Other+50 more — $2,415,665 · Other+50 more4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe — $1,892,623 · Recreation & Sports4G44 ESports Inc Lost …RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES — $110,000 · Recreation & SportsEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsTRYBAL GATHERINGS INC — $376,565 · ReligionTRYBAL GATHERING…SACRED SPACES — $175,000 · ReligionSACRED SPACESALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal — $160,000 · ReligionALEPH Alliance f…JUDAISM YOUR WAY — $110,000 · ReligionJUDAISM YOUR WAYJewish Farmer Network — $104,500 · ReligionJewish Farmer Ne…JEWFOLK MEDIA INC — $101,350 · ReligionJEWFOLK MEDIA IN…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $100,500 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUND…TZEDEK AMERICA — $100,000 · ReligionTZEDEK AMERICATHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT — $60,200 · Religion+9 more — $225,400 · Religion+9 moreFJC — $607,546 · Crime & LegalADVOT — $137,425 · Crime & LegalBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $140,800 · Human ServicesSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM — $132,500 · Human ServicesMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO — $101,699 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $101,117 · Human ServicesTIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE — $100,000 · Human ServicesLIBENU — $50,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC — $35,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $218,862 · EducationBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC — $200,000 · EducationMakom Community — $65,000 · EducationJewish Kids Group Foundation Inc — $45,000 · EducationNO SHAME ON U INC — $40,000 · Education30 YEARS AFTER INC — $26,025 · EducationTHE IDEA SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationTkiya Music Inc — $180,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES MEDIA INC — $115,425 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DYBBUK — $101,800 · Arts & CultureELECTRIC LODGE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureOLIVE TREE ARTS NETWORK NFP — $40,000 · Arts & CultureDESCENDANTS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS — $20,500 · Arts & CultureCUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLEV CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $19,000 · Arts & CultureSING UNTO GOD INC — $19,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,395,851Recreation & Sports$2,102,623Religion$1,513,515Crime & Legal$744,971Human Services$667,616Education$639,887Arts & Culture$555,725

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget4G44 ESports Inc Lost Tribe — $1,892,623 over 5y, 74% of budgetFJC — $607,546 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRYBAL GATHERINGS INC — $376,565 over 2y, 40% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $218,862 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC — $200,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTkiya Music Inc — $180,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetSACRED SPACES — $175,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA — $166,600 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal — $160,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBELOVED BUILDERS INC — $140,800 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetADVOT — $137,425 over 4y, 23% of budgetSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM — $132,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetJQY — $122,425 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetISH FESTIVAL — $120,000 over 3y, 54% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC — $115,425 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPRESENTENSE GROUP INC — $111,395 over 1y, 45% of budgetRAMAH IN THE ROCKIES — $110,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetJUDAISM YOUR WAY — $110,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetJewish Farmer Network — $104,500 over 2y, 31% of budgetTHEATRE DYBBUK — $101,800 over 2y, 27% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO — $101,699 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEWFOLK MEDIA INC — $101,350 over 1y, 13% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $101,117 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC — $101,072 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDEK AMERICA — $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE — $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBlue Dove Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetGROWTORAH INC — $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetZIONESS MOVEMENT INC — $99,617 over 1y, 11% of budgetPOLLYLABS FOUNDATION — $80,360 over 2y, 57% of budgetCANDID — $80,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAT THE WELL PROJECT INC — $79,650 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetStudio 70 — $70,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetMakom Community — $65,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT — $60,200 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCamp Maccabi JCC Maccabi Sports Camp — $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $51,150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIBENU — $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetESHEL — $50,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetJewish Kids Group Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $40,899 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSVARA — $40,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNO SHAME ON U INC — $40,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetELECTRIC LODGE — $40,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOLIVE TREE ARTS NETWORK NFP — $40,000 over 2y, 36% 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.

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.

The Shimon Ben Joseph…Covenant FoundationJewish Community Fede…Jewish Community Foun…United Jewish Appeal-…FjcJewish Communal FundArie and Ida Crown Me…Jewish Federation Cou…The Harold Grinspoon …Jewish Federation of …Combined Jewish Phila…
The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph FoundationCA67.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Covenant Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Upstart Bay Area 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 103 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home