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Winkler Lowy Foundation at a glance

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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.

$635k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$1.5MPhilanthropy$475kInternational$305kEducation$112kArts & Culture$102kHuman Services$65kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $466k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$448k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$10,000
BELEV ECHAD INC$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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $2k → 14%BELEV ECHAD INC: $10k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $4k → 17%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 13 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+5%

Still filing today

77%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureReligionEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $865k · revenue +122%
  • MC
    MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $379k · revenue +135%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TM
    TRIBE MEDIA CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • YI
    YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WF
    Worldwide Friends Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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4
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
5
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
6
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
7
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
8
Jewish Year Abroad

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

International
9
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $864,900 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INCMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $379,475 · OtherMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLBETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $178,830 · OtherBETH JACOB CONGREGATIONTEMPLE BETH AM: $80,000 · Other+4 more: $90,400 · Other+4 moreIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $225,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT FORUM FOUNDAT…JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION CO…THE GIVING BACK FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUNDWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $200,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTIT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $165,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS …Central Fund of Israel: $20,000 · International+2 more: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM: $3,600 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureIf You Heard What I Heard Inc: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $6,600 · EducationSAMUEL A FRYER YAVNEH ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationBELEV ECHAD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $3,600 · Human ServicesKARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · ReligionBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $5,000 · ReligionJFILMLA: $2,500 · Religion
Other$1,593,605Philanthropy$475,000International$405,000Arts & Culture$64,600Education$21,600Human Services$15,400Religion$15,000

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 budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $864,900 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $379,475 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $200,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRIBE MEDIA CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIf You Heard What I Heard Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $6,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCUSTOM AND CRAFT JEWISH RITUALS INC DBA RECUSTOM HAGGADOTCOM: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJFILMLA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKARSH FAMILY SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC: $1,800 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 Community Foun…Jewish Federation Cou…Jewish Communal FundCalifornia Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Lee and Anne Samson C…Jewish National Fund …Houston Jewish Commun…Dallas Jewish Communi…Combined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…SAMUEL and HELENE SOR…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA32.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Winkler Lowy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Winkler Lowy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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