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Barer 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.

$551k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$365k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$2.6MHealth$710kEducation$424kPhilanthropy$215kPublic Benefit$185kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$99kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
  • $250k+1 grant · $365k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$264k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM$365,000
AHS HOSPITAL CORP$91,667
FAMILY PROMISE$40,000
UNION COUNTY TORAH CENTER$29,000
OVERLOOK FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR JEWISH DISCOVERY: $18k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC: $25k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEMOCRACY INSTRITUTE: $100k → 13%AHS HOSPITAL CORP: $206k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $144k → 8%OVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $50k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE: $50k → 13%AHS HOSPITAL CORP: $104k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE: $40k → 10%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $15k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE: $25k → 13%AHS HOSPITAL CORP: $92k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%OVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE ALGEMEINER: $50k → 17%AHS HOSPITAL CORP: $75k → 4%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE: $20k → 10%TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $20k → 17%MORRISTOWN JEWISH CENTER: $15k → 4%HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE: $20k → 10%TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $20k → 17%CHRISTIE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10k → 4%OVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $20k → 17%UNION COUNTY TORAH CENTER: $50k → 10%TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $665k → 17%DREW UNIVERSITY: $25k → 4%UNION COUNTY TORAH CENTER: $29k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $414k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST: $100k → 4%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $365k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST: $40k → 4%UNION COUNTY TORAH CENTER: $20k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $200k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST: $25k → 4%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $200k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $165k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $165k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM: $165k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $55k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 9 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$4.0M
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
77%

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
InternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +99%
  • OF
    OVERLOOK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +121%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +212%

Funded once

  • AI
    ALGEMEINER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -31%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -51%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
The Jewish Agency for 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…

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4
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
American Friends of the Open University of Israel Inc

To raise awareness in the united states and provide support for the open university of israel's vital mission of making access to higher education available to capable and motivated students from all sectors of israeli society.

International
8
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
9
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $2,339,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTERTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $175,000 · InternationalTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC+2 more — $65,000 · InternationalATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $475,667 · OtherATLANTIC HEALTH SYST…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST — $125,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF…UNION COUNTY TORAH CENTER INC — $99,000 · OtherUNION COUNTY TORAH C…ALGEMEINER INC — $50,000 · OtherALGEMEINER INC+5 more — $63,000 · Other+5 moreRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $354,000 · EducationRUTGERS UN…YESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationYESHIVA UN…DREW UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationDREW UNIVE…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $224,000 · HealthPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $105,425 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $40,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementSPRING STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA TABLE OF HOPE — $5,000 · Community Improvement
International$2,579,000Other$812,667Education$414,000Health$224,000Philanthropy$220,425Housing & Shelter$100,000Community Improvement$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER — $2,339,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $354,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION — $224,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $105,425 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALGEMEINER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREW UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENDHAM TOWNSHIP LIBRARY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CHRISTIE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNew York University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA TABLE OF HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Barer Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Drew University — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Barer Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Barer Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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