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Zebulun 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION DARCHEI NOAM | $1,000 |
| MIDWEST CAMPERS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA IMREI EMES | $500 |
| MESIVTHA TIFERETH JERUSALEM | $360 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $360 |
| SAVE THE WHALES | $240 |
| SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY | $240 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $240 |
| YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY | $240 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $240 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF FORT LEE | $240 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $240 |
| YESHIVAT NOAM | $180 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION WORKS | $180 |
| ORTHODOX UNION | $180 |
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 (FY17–23, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA IMREI EMES I7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +72%
- HTHEAL THE BAY8× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +8%
- MOMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES5× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- YIYOUNG ISRAEL OF SAINT LOUISone grant, 2024 · $500
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2024 · $500
- EYEZER YOLDOT HAMERCAZIone grant, 2017 · $360
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 the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aishel 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 77 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA IMREI EMES I ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CAMPERS INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH OF KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save the Whales ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kollel - Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Community Eruv ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds CAMP HASC INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗
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 Communal Fund · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · The Rav-Noy Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Ojc Fund · Joseph Jacob Abraham Foundation · The Sassoon Family Foundation · Jay Morris Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jack and Gitta Nagel Foundation · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family 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 Zebulun 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.
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