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Winkler Lowy 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $466k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC | $200,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC | $113,960 |
| MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $101,975 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC | $50,000 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION | $46,830 |
| IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $25,000 |
| BELEV ECHAD INC | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| IF YOU HEARD WHAT I HEARD INC | $5,000 |
| JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC | $1,800 |
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 (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $865k · revenue +122%
- MCMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $379k · revenue +135%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TMTRIBE MEDIA CORPone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +114%
- YIYOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLSone grant, 2023 · $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.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
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.
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Israfest Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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
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 CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds TRIBE MEDIA CORP ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds If You Heard What I Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC ↗
- Who funds CUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JFILMLA ↗
- Who funds KARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
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 Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Communal Fund · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · SAMUEL and HELENE SOREF 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 Winkler Lowy 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.
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.