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Worldwide Friends Foundation

Israel Friends and Ukraine Friends are our flagship humanitarian missions, operating under the U.S.-based 501(c)(3) Worldwide Friends Foundation.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$1.7MInternational$744kArts & Culture$118kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,873,260, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,330,344 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $457,084 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
$36,850
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Beth El Synagogue$1,720,110
Friends of Yashar LaChayal$71,026
Alevy Family Foundation$36,850
PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc$30,000
MITZVAH FOR UKRAINE INC$8,000
Operation Israel Inc$7,274
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Friends of Yashar LaChayal: $71k → 8%American Friends of Unit 669 INC: $35k → 16%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $444k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $384k to organizations and $60k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$444k · 100% · 8 grants · 6 people

Stated purpose: Humanitarian Aid · Medical · PTSD

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its 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
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Israel Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc

To advise and support the atalef foundation in its mission of strengthening the core foundations of israeli society through assisting soldiers and graduates of shayetet-13, israel's navy seals. the organization is non-political in nature.

International
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Afghan Jewish Foundation Inc
—
8
American Friends of Idf Widows and Orphans Organization Inc

American Friends of IDFWO is dedicated to providing financial, emotional, and social support to the families of Israeli soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in service. We aim to honor their legacy and help rebuild the lives of widows…

Human Services
9
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Ohel Bas Zion Inc
—
12
Jewish Life Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Libi Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alevy Family Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Beth El Synagogue: $1,720,110 · OtherBeth El SynagogueWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $118,000 · OtherWestern Wall Heritage Foundation IncIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $500,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC: $126,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATE…Friends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $71,026 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION ISRAEL INC: $7,274 · PhilanthropyALEVY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $36,850 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,923,110International$626,000Human Services$106,026Philanthropy$37,274Public Safety & Disaster$36,850

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANATEVKA INC: $126,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $118,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $71,026 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALEVY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $36,850 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION ISRAEL INC: $7,274 over 1y, 0.7% 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 FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%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
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Worldwide Friends Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Worldwide Friends Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 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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