Same Donors, Different Movements
The financial infrastructure behind the zionist movement also funds the organizations meant to dismantle it. We built a database of 14,653 nonprofits that shows exactly how.
Between 2013 and 2023, US-based nonprofits moved $17.65 billion to Israeli and foreign entities through the tax-exempt charitable system. In 2023 alone, $2.57 billion left the country — more than two-thirds of the annual US military aid package, with none of the restrictions. We know this because we counted it: 29,751 individual grant transactions, exposed in the IRS filings that every US nonprofit is required to submit. While the data reveals an entanglement of interests that create structural liabilities in US movement spaces, it also highlights strategic opportunities to disrupt the material resources that advance the zionist movement in Palestine.
Good Shepherd Collective maintains an open-source database of 14,653 US-based 501(c)(3) organizations identified as participants in the zionist financial ecosystem. The database is the evidentiary backbone of Defund Racism, a coalition campaign challenging the tax-exempt status of organizations that fund settlement expansion and military operations across Palestine. It is built entirely from verified IRS 990 filings available through the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File and electronically filed returns. Organizations are classified by function — direct funders, intermediaries, advocacy groups, and domestic infrastructure — and by confidence level, using grant recipient analysis, Schedule F foreign activity disclosures, and cross-references against known zionist-linked entities.
Our research unearthed two aggregate figures that matter: $2.57 billion and $9.3 billion. The first is the amount of money that actually left the United States and landed in “Israel” in 2023. We isolated this number by counting only terminal grants — grant transactions in which the recipient is an Israeli or foreign entity, rather than another US-based intermediary. Between 2013 and 2023, those terminal grants totaled $17.65 billion across 29,751 individual transactions. That figure grew from $626 million in 2013 to $2.57 billion in 2023, a 311 percent increase over the decade.
The second figure ($9.3 billion) is the total annual revenue of the ecosystem itself — the full domestic apparatus of fundraising, programming, advocacy, and lawfare operations that sustained the pipeline in 2023. Summing revenue across all 14,653 organizations for the same period produces $93.65 billion, but that number double-counts money as it moves between organizations within the ecosystem (a donation to a Jewish Federation that becomes a grant to the Central Fund of Israel appears as revenue for both). Subtracting the $13.6 billion in intra-ecosystem grants we can trace by EIN produces a de-duplicated estimate of roughly $80 billion in net revenue entering the system from outside donors and other sources between 2013 and 2023. In 2023 alone, the ecosystem generated approximately $9.3 billion in de-duplicated revenue, up from $5.3 billion a decade earlier, a 75 percent increase. In comparison, over the same period, Lockheed Martin’s revenue grew 49 percent, from $45.4 billion to $67.6 billion.
