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The Israel Institute Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 46-0540994. Reported 140 grants totalling $9,247,233 to 68 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Israel Institute Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 68 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $66,500. Half of what it reported fell between $40,160 and $89,400; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $340,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bamah Inc | Washington, DC | $690,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $458,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $422,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $360,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $360,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| President & Fellows of Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT | $357,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $356,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $354,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $270,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $260,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $258,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $239,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $225,462 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $209,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American University | Washington, DC | $205,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Florida Foundation Inc | Gainesville, FL | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $195,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Catholic University of America | Washington, DC | $170,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $168,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | $157,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia | Atlanta, GA | $153,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $152,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sonoma State University | Rohnert Park, CA | $151,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $131,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $130,032 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA | $90,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| George Washington - Elliot School of Intl Affairs | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $89,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $88,850 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton, FL | $84,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $82,820 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $82,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $80,320 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $76,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $76,875 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Queens College Association | Flushing, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $69,185 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $69,185 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Jose State University | San Jose, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tulane University School of Medicine -Aoa Chapter | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Texas - Austin | Austin, TX | $57,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $56,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | Lawrence, KS | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | $47,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Irvine | Irvine, CA | $38,060 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $35,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida International University | Miami, FL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $16,768 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Binghamton University Foundation Housing Corp | Binghamton, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $10,794 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Arizona Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $8,960 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $8,722 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Touro University | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
32 of 68 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- University of Maryland
TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS, TEACHING EXPANSION - UC Berkeley
VISITING FACULTY, TEACHING EXPANSION - University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
TEACHING FELLOWSHIP AND ADDITIONAL COURSE SUPPLEMENT - UC Regents (ucla)
TEACHING FELLOWSHIP AND TEACHING EXPANSION - American University
VISITING FACULTY AND TEACHING EXPANSION - Catholic University of America
ISRAEL STUDIES TEACHING SUPPLEMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 34 of 68 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 28 | $1,657,154 | $66,250 |
| 2021 | 26 | $1,955,766 | $76,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $1,767,900 | $73,500 |
| 2023 | 28 | $1,867,744 | $58,500 |
| 2024 | 34 | $1,998,669 | $58,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
21% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $66,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Israel Institute Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1100 New Jersey Avenue Se 2115, Washington, DC, 20003.
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