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Wallack 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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$380kEducation$136kHealth$58kYouth Development$23kInternational$16kCivil Rights$10kCrime & Legal$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHER SCHOOL$40,000
JEWISH FEDERATION LOS ANGELES$23,000
DRIVING OUT CANCER$11,000
JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LOS$2,500
JQ INTERNATIONAL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
TEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%DRIVING OUT CANCER: $11k → 10%ISRAEL 21C: $1k → 10%JBBBSLA: $3k → 14%INFINITE EQUINE THERAPIES: $500 → 14%ISGAP: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 14%TEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE INC: $1k → 7%SPARK: $18k → 14%THE ARCHER FUND: $103k → 10%JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LOS: $3k → 14%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $3k → 17%HILLEL NORTHWESTERN: $1k → 14%THE ARCHER FUND: $103k → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%THE ARCHER FUND: $83k → 10%SHANE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE ARCHER FUND: $20k → 10%ARCHER SCHOOL: $40k → 14%THE ARCHER FUND: $19k → 10%ARCHER SCHOOL: $18k → 14%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SCGA JUNIOR GOLF: $5k → 14%SINAI AKIBA ACADEMY: $50k → 14%SINAI AKIBA ACADEMY: $10k → 14%SINAI AKIBA ACADEMY: $10k → 14%SINAI AKIBA ACADEMY: $6k → 14%JQ INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY: $14k → 14%FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY: $13k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION LOS ANGELES: $23k → 14%CEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $12k → 14%CEDAR SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $12k → 14%CEDAR SINAI: $4k → 14%CAMP BOB WALDORF: $3k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION: $1k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $300 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$529k · 7 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$529k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+14%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthInternationalCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $26k · revenue +15%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +63%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +57%
  • SP
    SPARK PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -94%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +75%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
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…

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3
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
4
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
7
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
University of Judaism Foundation
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10
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
12
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish University; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ARCHER FUND: $328,999 · OtherTHE ARCHER FUNDSINAI TEMPLE: $75,880 · OtherSINAI TEMPLEARCHER SCHOOL: $57,745 · OtherARCHER SCHOOLSPARK PROGRAM INC: $18,000 · Other+10 more: $21,850 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILA…JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $23,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCE…DRIVING OUT CANCER INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyDRIVING OUT CA…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $23,200 · HealthTEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $10,000 · Civil RightsCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $2,500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationIsrael 21c: $1,000 · EducationJQ INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 · Religion
Other$502,474Philanthropy$80,000Health$24,200International$16,000Civil Rights$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000Education$4,500Religion$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $23,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK PROGRAM INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVING OUT CANCER INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM AND POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJQ INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM PHENOMENAL HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael 21c: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wallack Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallack Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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