Funding search · EIN 475446562 · Palo Alto, CA

The Koum Family Foundation

Name: The Koum Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

451
grants reported: $247.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $350,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

expenditure information purchase respect responsibility expensed long previous

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Jewish community life in Israel and the former Soviet Union
Israel advocacy and campus programs (StandWithUs, Club Z, ICC)
Israeli hospitals, emergency medicine, and trauma care
Bay Area JCCs, Jewish day schools, and family services
Jewish youth engagement: Birthright, BBYO, Moishe House, camp
Holocaust survivor aid, antisemitism litigation, Jewish media

Typical grant

Median grant is $350,000, with the middle half between $200,000 and $775,000. The seven-figure checks go to large Israel and Jewish peoplehood institutions (European Jewish Association at $5.5M twice in 2024, Oshman Family JCC at $2.5M, Hadassah, JDC, Birthright) while $250,000 to $500,000 covers regional day schools, JCCs, and single-program partners. Repeat giving is the norm: 451 grants went to 254 recipients in three years, and several groups like Israel Healthcare Foundation and the FJC of the CIS received multiple checks in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL CHARITY”
“AMERICAN FRIENDS OF”
“FRIENDS OF”
“FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES (FJC) OF THE CIS”
“(FOR HASHOMER HACHADASH)”

Positioning adjacent work

Route Israel-based work through a US 501(c)(3) friends-of entity; nearly every overseas grant went that way.
Ask $250,000 to $750,000 for a defined project; reserve seven-figure framing for national-scale institutions.
Connect to a funded theme: FSU Jewish communities, Israeli hospital care, campus Israel education, or Bay Area Jewish institutions.
Name a specific earmark the way they do, as with '(FOR NOVA EXHIBIT)' or '(FOR KEDEM)', rather than pitching general support.

Worth knowing: This is a Jewish and Israel-focused funder with essentially nothing outside that frame; the few non-Jewish grants (Tipping Point, UCSF Foundation, Boys & Girls Club of Malibu) sit in the donor's home geographies of the Bay Area and Malibu. New York-registered friends-of organizations take the largest share, a handful of grantees like the FJC of the CIS and Israel Healthcare Foundation collect several checks a year, and the 2024 record leans heavily toward post-October 7 Israel advocacy, trauma care, and Ukraine-area Jewish communities.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

European Jewish Association5 grants · $21.8M
European Jewish Association2 grants · $11.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis8 grants · $9.2M
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center3 grants · $6.8M
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee6 grants · $5.2M
Stanford Medical1 grant · $5.0M
Israel On Campus Coalition5 grants · $4.2M
Chabad Np5 grants · $4.2M
American Committee for Shaare Zedek5 grants · $4.0M
Hadassah the Womens Zionist Organization of America3 grants · $4.0M

Giving over time

$101.5M

2022

$70.7M

2023

$75.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 451 grants.

$5.5M
European Jewish Association · Monsey, NY · 2024
General charity
$5.5M
European Jewish Association · Monsey, NY · 2023
General charity
$5.5M
European Jewish Association · Monsey, NY · 2022
General charity
$5.5M
European Jewish Association · Monsey, NY · 2024
General charity
$5.3M
European Jewish Association · Monsey, NY · 2023
General charity
$5.1M
European Jewish Association · Monsey, NY · 2022
General charity
$5.0M
Stanford Medical · Stanford, CA · 2022
General charity
$3.8M
Stanford University Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr University · Stanford, CA · 2023
General charity
$2.5M
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
General charity
$2.3M
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General charity
$2.0M
Israel Healthcare Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$2.0M
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General charity
$2.0M
American Friends of Yad Eliezer · Jackson, NJ · 2024
General charity
$2.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities (Fjc) of the Cis · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$2.0M
Hadassah the Women'S Zionist Organization of America · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$2.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$2.0M
Jewish Family & Children'S Services · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General charity
$2.0M
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General charity
$2.0M
American Friends of Yad Eliezer · Jackson, NJ · 2022
General charity
$2.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$2.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$2.0M
Hadassah the Womens Zionist Organization of America · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$2.0M
Itrek · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$2.0M
Stanford Jewish Center · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General charity
$1.7M
Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine (Ukrainian Dept of Health) · 2022
To purchase 25 ambulances
$1.6M
Bnai Brith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2023
General charity
$1.6M
Bbyo · Washington, DC · 2024
General charity
$1.6M
American Committee for Shaare Zedek · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.5M
Israel Healthcare Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.5M
Rimon Club Inc (Club Z) · San Carlos, CA · 2023
General charity
$1.5M
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.5M
Federation of Jewish Communities (Fjc) of the Cis · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.5M
Itrek · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.5M
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.5M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.5M
Hadassah the Womens Zionist Organization of America · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.5M
Israel Healthcare Foundation (for Clalit) · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.5M
Shalom Institute · Westlake Village, CA · 2023
General charity
$1.5M
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.5M
Bnai Brith Youth Organization · Washington, DC · 2022
General charity
$1.5M
Chabad Np · San Mateo, CA · 2022
General charity
$1.5M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.5M
Rimon Club Inc (Club Z) · San Carlos, CA · 2022
General charity
$1.5M
Shuvu Return · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.4M
Shabbatcom · Monsey, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.4M
Federation of Jewish Communities (Fjc) of the Cis (for Chabad Odessa) · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.3M
Israel On Campus Coalition · Washington, DC · 2024
General charity
$1.3M
Rimon Club Dba Club Z · Redwood City, CA · 2024
General charity
$1.3M
Israel On Campus Coalition · Washington, DC · 2023
General charity
$1.3M
Israel On Campus Coalition · Washington, DC · 2022
General charity
$1.2M
American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community · Airmont, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.2M
Hopewell Fund (for Earlyj) · Washington, DC · 2024
General charity
$1.2M
American Committee for Shaare Zedek · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.1M
Jewish National Fund (for Hashomer Hachadash) · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.1M
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.1M
Israel Next Generation · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.1M
M Y Keren Hashluchim (for Jewish Community of Dnipro) · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.1M
Foundation for Jewish Camp · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.1M
Israel Next Generation · Suffern, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine (Ukrainian Dept of Health) · 2022
To purchase 10 x-ray mobile diagnostic systems
$1.0M
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities (Fjc) of the Cis (for Kharkov Jewish Commu · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
Friends of Ir David · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
Illuminate · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
National Library Israel USA (Nli USA Inc) · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
Shuvu Return · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
The Shalem Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General charity
$1.0M
American Friends of Kiev Jewish Community · Airmont, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
American Friends of Sheba Hospital · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis (for Chabad Odessa) · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis (for Kharkov Jewish Community) · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Friends of Ir David · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Friends of Mosaic United · Southfield, MI · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Agency for Israel · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Federations of North America (Jfna) · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
My Keren Hashluchim · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
National Library of Israel · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Partners in Torah · Passaic, NJ · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Pef (for Barzilai Medical Center) · New York, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Shuvu Return · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General charity
$1.0M
Chabad Np · San Mateo, CA · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Derech Ami · 2022
See information with respect to expenditure responsibility grants
$1.0M
Friends of Ir David · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Israel Next Generation · Suffern, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Itrek · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Agency for Israel · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Jewish Health Organization · Boston, MA · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Partners in Torah · Passaic, NJ · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Toldos Yeshurun · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General charity
$1.0M
Tomchei Israel · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General charity
$989,696
Tomchei Israel · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General charity
$975,760
Foundation for Jewish Camp · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$960,000
American Friends of Kiev Jewish Community · Airmont, NY · 2022
General charity
$960,000
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc Chabad Odessa · New York, NY · 2022
General charity
$960,000
Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc Kharkov Jewish Community · New York, NY · 2022
General charity

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