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TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE

TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,968 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($224,967). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$-314789
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$546k
Net assets
$0
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture does

Mission

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of jewish family and children's services, a public charity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation made grants and incurred expenses in support of the charitable, educational, scientific or religious purposes of jewish family and children's services.

    $1,696,905 spentof which $1,695,601 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,696,905.

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 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($31M) Net assets 100 ($28M)2018 Revenue 125 ($4.1M) Expenses 28 ($8.5M) Net assets 81 ($23M)2019 Revenue 183 ($6.0M) Expenses 23 ($7.1M) Net assets 76 ($21M)2020 Revenue 198 ($6.5M) Expenses 19 ($6.0M) Net assets 66 ($19M)2021 Revenue 40 ($1.3M) Expenses 11 ($3.5M) Net assets 59 ($17M)2022 Revenue 15 ($508k) Expenses 28 ($8.7M) Net assets 26 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 33 ($1.1M) Expenses 12 ($3.6M) Net assets 16 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 76 ($2.5M) Expenses 8 ($2.5M) Net assets 7 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue -10 ($-314789) Expenses 6 ($1.9M) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (-10)Expenses (6)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $44M to $34M (−24%).

$44M
$34M
$28M
$22M
$21M
$13M
$6.4M
$2.3M
$0
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27M
’17
−$4.3M
’18
−$1.1M
’19
$539k
’20
−$2.2M
’21
−$8.2M
’22
−$2.5M
’23
$25k
’24
−$2.2M
’25
1.4
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

Shana Penn

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed777788888
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $100k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE’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

TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

80% 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 TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE.

41%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 68% · 2023 100% — 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

20% of TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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

71% of TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE'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 $156k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.

NY
CA

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

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’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k 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 TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE

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

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Jewish Family and Children's Services · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE?
TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,968 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($224,967). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $545,968 in grants to TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE?
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA is the largest funder on record, with $224,967 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TAUBE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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