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B L Manger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $354k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $474k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $120,300 |
| OPERATION LIFESHIELD INC | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT | $69,000 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $65,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES SO NJ | $36,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $25,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE - YAD L'ISHA | $25,000 |
| THANK ISRAELI SOLDIERS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI | $25,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $18,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH | $18,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $318k · revenue +135%
- IGISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND5× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +65%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BARZILAIone grant, 2024 · $117k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $60k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +94%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Bar-Ilan University and the most unlike its peers is Feingold Association of the United States Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BARZILAI ↗
- Who funds OPERATION LIFESHIELD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ISRAEL'S TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Federation Stamford New Canaan Darien Inc · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · The Louis J Kuriansky Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Iris and Shalom Maidenbaum Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization B L Manger Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Young Israel of Margate — 53% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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