The Natan board underwrites Natan’s operating expenses, so 100% of your membership contribution goes to the grant committee you join – whichever one most resonates with your philanthropic interests. From setting the committee’s strategy to determining which non-profit organizations or social entrepreneurs your committee supports, you have the opportunity to shape all stages of Natan’s allocations process.

All of Natan’s grant decisions are based on a rigorous review of written grant applications and in-person (or video) interviews with organizational leadership. When you and your committee decide to make a grant, you’re doing so based on extensive information about an organization’s finances, history, leadership, experience, and impact.

Members bring their professional expertise and personal experience to the decision-making process, and all allocations decisions are made collectively. The Natan Fund also values viewpoint diversity. One Natan member once suggested that our motto should be "Change My Mind". Our members represent the spectrum of political and religious ideology and the grantmaking serves as a catalyst for ways to come together and have dialogue about critical issues.

Natan is a professional, personal, and philanthropic network - a community of successful young professionals, who enjoy spending time together and learning from and with each other. Our grantmaking is complemented with a robust calendar of events – salons, screenings, community service, social events, and travel – that strengthen our community.