California · Nonprofit
NEFESH LA
NEFESH LA (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,389 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($636,720). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $291k
What Nefesh La does
Mission
Nefesh La is organized under the nonprofit religious corporation law for public and charitable purposes. Nefesh La is an open-hearted spiritual community welcoming all the identities that make up who we are and who we love. Born in the multicultural beauty of la's east side neighborhoods, nefesh cultivates empathy, love, and justice. Nefesh is a doorway to the wisdom, ritual, and melodies of the jewish tradition-a place to find and be found.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Nefesh upholds jewish rituals and observes all traditional jewish holidays including, among others, the following: erev shabbat and shabbat morning services; annual high holy day services; additional holiday rituals and celebrations throughout the jewish year. In the reporting year, nefesh allocated 30% of its time to activities associated with erev shabbat and shabbat services, 20% of its time to other holiday observances annually, 30% of its time to torah/jewish studies and other educational , spiritual growth, and social justice programming for children, adults, and families, and 20% of its time pastoral care and lifecycle events for its kin. All of these endeavors are directed by the rabbi and executed by the rabbi and staff in and around los angeles.
$1,156,720 spent$1,200,141 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,156,720.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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 $77k to $242k (+214%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NEFESH LA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Tali Pressman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $81k → $366k.
11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 NEFESH LA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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
NEFESH LA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 NEFESH LA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 37% · 2021 76% · 2022 31% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of NEFESH LA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
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
66% of NEFESH LA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $524k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.
Against its field
NEFESH LA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NEFESH LA
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.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEFESH LA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEFESH LA?
- NEFESH LA (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,389 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($636,720). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEFESH LA have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,548,389 in grants to NEFESH LA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEFESH LA?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $636,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEFESH LA 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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