New York · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC
VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,577 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($20,360). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Volunteers for Israel Inc does
Mission
Volunteers for Israel (VFI) connects Americans to Israel through volunteer service. We promote solidarity and goodwill among Israelis, American Jews, and other friends of Israel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Offer 9 to 18 day programs for Americans who desire to participate in various volunteer opportunities in Israel, combined with educational touring and cultural exchange. In 2025 64 people participated in 8 different programs. We also offer a weekly on-line educational discussion group via Zoom with average attendance of over 100.
$151,732 spent99% of program spendingWe also offer a weekly on-line educational discussion group via Zoom with average attendance of over 100.
$1,530 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $153,262.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $131k to $264k (+102%).
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.
8% of VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $12k → $7k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC’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
VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 84% — 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
20% of VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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
80% of VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC has grown faster than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC: 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 VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC?
- VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,577 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($20,360). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $84,577 in grants to VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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