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BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES

BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,647,213 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($1,314,388). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$-456487
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Bnei Akiva of Los Angeles does

Mission

To develop and train the next generation of orthodox zionist leaders from within the los angeles jewish community through year-round programming which is fun, educational and teaches leadership skills and a deep love for am yisrael, medinat yisrael and torat yisrael.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We operate moshava, an overnight summer camp for children entering 3rd-10th grade. In a warm, safe, and caring community, campers experience excellent programming in arts, sports, swim, and nature. The camp features an exciting integrated jewish experiential education program along with wonderful spirit deeply infused with bnei akiva's religious zionist values. Campers and staff grow in jewish leadership.

    $1,871,009 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. We operate weekly synagogue-based youth jewish educational programming(snif) in communities across los angeles. This program has a dualfocus. In addition to offering fun and engaging israel-focusedexperiential education programming to elementary school students, itincludes extensive leadership training for the high school students whotake on counselor roles and learn to develop and run these programs.

    $668,217 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Boating and aquatic programming to engage youth and teach skills.

    $133,643 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,672,869.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 90 ($1.7M) Expenses 105 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.8M) Expenses 120 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 103 ($1.9M) Expenses 52 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 135 ($2.5M) Expenses 115 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 149 ($2.8M) Expenses 148 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 174 ($3.3M) Expenses 179 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 203 ($3.8M) Expenses 163 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (203)Expenses (163)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $200k to $739k (+269%).

$487k
$461k
$187k
$200k
$739k
$331k
$472k
$958k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 13% · 2023 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$72k
’17
−$351k
’18
−$513k
’19
$931k
’20
$279k
’21
−$85k
’22
−$227k
’23
$633k
’24
0.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Moshe Matanky

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+1+0+0+17+0+5
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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $266k → $1.0M.

10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES.

28%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 59% · 2019 36% · 2020 38% · 2021 24% · 2022 36% · 2023 47% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

77% of BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
175%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • West Coast Torah Retreat and Camp Center · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES?
BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,647,213 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($1,314,388). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,647,213 in grants to BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $1,314,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BNEI AKIVA OF LOS ANGELES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing