Connecticut · Private foundation
B L Manger Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $704k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2026
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $96,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 48
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 9
- Total assets, FY2026
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 29% of the organizations B L Manger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 33 | $694k | 15% |
| FY2025 | 34 | $734k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $561k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $722k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $715k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $715k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $661k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut Incorporated | $468,000 | 7 | n/a |
| American Friends of Bar-Ilan University | $387,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation Agudath Sholom | $185,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc | $160,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Temple Har Zion | $128,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Friends of Barzilai | $117,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Chabad of New Canaan Inc | $113,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Operation Lifeshield Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bnai Brith | $98,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $76,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
B L Manger Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About B L Manger Foundation
- How much does B L Manger Foundation give?
- B L Manger Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $703,800 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does B L Manger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Education (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are B L Manger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: The Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of Connecticut Incorporated ($468k), American Friends of Bar-Ilan University ($388k), Congregation Agudath Sholom ($185k).
- Does B L Manger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does B L Manger Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as B L Manger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, United Jewish Federation Stamford New Canaan Darien Inc, Erlbaum Family Foundation.
- Where is B L Manger Foundation based?
- B L Manger Foundation is based in CT.
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