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Shelters for Israel

Shelters for Israel (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,423 to it, the largest being THE LESLIE AND SUSAN GONDA (GOLDSCHMIED) ($70,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$215k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$230k
Net assets
$273k
11/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Shelters for Israel does

Mission

Founded in 1948, Shelters for Israels mission is to provide funding for vital projects, programs, and facilities in Israel to support the neediest populations, with a focus on improving the lives of children and the elderly, including Holocaust survivors.Shelters for Israel has always been and remains an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff or office space.Shelters for Israel has funded over 70 capital projects, starting with its original mission of providing housing for Holocaust survivors, and has continued to fund housing for the elderly as well as student dormitories, childcare facilities, pre-kindergartens, day care centers for the elderly, medical facilities and equipment, and facilities for children and adults with special needs, and so much more.Shelters for Israel also provides funding for vital programs addressing the needs of at-risk youth for their physical, educational, and emotional well-being. This includes through support of programs providing at-risk youth wit

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Over the past 75 years we have provided funding for the construction of more than 70 capital projects, including for housing, childcare and kindergartens, and day care centers for the elderly, medical facilities and dormitories, as well as educational facilities for autistic and learning disabled children in various communities in Israel. We also grant funds to provide impoverished holocaust survivors with basic needs and provide support for at-risk and disadvantaged youth, among other programs meant to provide for the basic needs and emotional support of young people.

    $307,825 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,825.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($220k) Expenses 100 ($164k) Net assets 100 ($251k)2018 Revenue 80 ($177k) Expenses 56 ($93k) Net assets 133 ($334k)2019 Revenue 116 ($256k) Expenses 123 ($202k) Net assets 154 ($388k)2020 Revenue 157 ($345k) Expenses 204 ($335k) Net assets 158 ($397k)2021 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 121 ($267k) Expenses 230 ($377k) Net assets 182 ($458k)2023 Revenue 236 ($519k) Expenses 362 ($593k) Net assets 153 ($384k)2024 Revenue 98 ($215k) Expenses 198 ($326k) Net assets 109 ($273k)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (198)Net assets (109)

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 $397k to $0 (−100%).

$251k
$334k
$388k
$397k
$0
$458k
$384k
$273k
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
$84k
’18
$54k
’19
$10k
’20
’21
−$110k
’22
−$74k
’23
−$111k
’24
10
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.

2017201820192020202220232024
Listed13121213121212
Joined·+1+0+1·+0+0
No longer listed·200·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $750 → $37k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Shelters for Israel’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

Shelters for Israel leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

42% 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 Shelters for Israel.

30%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 78% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 52% — 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

33% of Shelters for Israel's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

85% of Shelters for Israel's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
OH
CA
CO

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Organizations like Shelters for Israel

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
0%
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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Shelters for Israel: 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 Shelters for Israel?
Shelters for Israel (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,423 to it, the largest being THE LESLIE AND SUSAN GONDA (GOLDSCHMIED) ($70,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Shelters for Israel have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $230,423 in grants to Shelters for Israel, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Shelters for Israel?
THE LESLIE AND SUSAN GONDA (GOLDSCHMIED) is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Shelters for Israel 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.

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 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing