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Bak Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bak Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$274kEducation$200kPhilanthropy$64kInternational$13kHuman Services$6kHealth$5kCivil Rights$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,584
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE$5,400
ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE$3,075
AMIT CHILDREN INC$2,584
THE TIKVAH FUND$2,000
JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH$1,475
CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL$1,040
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: $4k → 11%GIFT OF LIFE: $5k → 22%TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH: $18k → 6%YINR: $13k → 9%AMIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%LEZION B'RINAH: $5k → 20%GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $5k → 11%HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 8%SINAI SCHOOLS: $2k → 7%TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 11%JEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH: $4k → 6%YINR: $3k → 9%AMIT CHILDREN: $5k → 17%HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 8%TORAH NATURE FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%AMIT: $5k → 17%AMIT CHILDREN INC: $3k → 17%FJC: $3k → 17%GATESTONE INSTITUTE: $30k → 17%GATESTONE: $30k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%GATESTONE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%GATESTONE INSTITUTE: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YSRAEL: $12k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YSRAEL: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI ISRAEL: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YSRAEL: $3k → 17%LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE: $15k → 17%LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE: $10k → 17%LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE: $9k → 17%LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 17%AMIT: $10k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $30k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $30k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $25k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $25k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $12k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $10k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DE
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$501k · 14 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$501k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+39%

Still filing today

57%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OT
    Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
    7× · 2017–2023 · $142k · revenue +96%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +95%
  • HD
    HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT
    3× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • G
    GATESTONE
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +122%
  • GO
    GIFT OF LIFE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
6
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
9
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
10
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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11
Jewish Life Foundation
—
12
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Bar-Ilan University; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $125,015 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITYGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationGATESTONE INSTITUTEHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $16,200 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT+3 more: $9,150 · EducationLINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INC: $39,400 · OtherLINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INCGATESTONE: $30,000 · OtherGATESTONEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC: $29,600 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INCJEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACH: $24,950 · OtherJEWISH CENTER OF ATLANTIC BEACHYINR: $16,058 · OtherYINRAMIT: $15,000 · OtherAMITADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: $6,575 · Other+15 more: $30,228 · Other+15 moreOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $142,000 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of…THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $17,200 · ReligionTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,200 · ReligionAMIT CHILDREN INC: $13,084 · InternationalGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $5,000 · Health
Education$200,365Other$191,811Religion$160,400International$13,084Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $142,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $125,015 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGATESTONE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC: $29,600 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION: $17,200 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $16,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $13,084 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGDAL OHR INTERNATIONAL INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GATESTONE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TORAH AND NATURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIGDAL OHR INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bak Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bak Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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