· Private foundation
B L Manger Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $351k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IMFA INC | $96,000 |
| BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT | $70,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $65,000 |
| CHABAD CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF SOUTHERN NJ | $36,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $30,000 |
| THANK ISRAELI SOLDIERS | $25,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $25,000 |
| SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $18,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $18,000 |
| CHABAD OF NEW CANAAN | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE HAR ZION | $15,000 |
| CHABAD OF STAMFORD | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–26, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2021–2026 · $388k · revenue +135%
- IGISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND6× · 2019–2026 · $76k · revenue +65%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI5× · 2021–2026 · $65k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BARZILAIone grant, 2024 · $117k
- OLOPERATION LIFESHIELD INCgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue +688%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $60k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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 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 further jewish education in israel
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR ISRAEL'S TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVI ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization B L Manger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B L Manger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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