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Barry Novin Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Barry Novin Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$57kPhilanthropy$49kReligion$39kHealth$22kHuman Services$5kInternational$4kCivil Rights$2kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$10,860
Median grant
2
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE B'NAI OR$15,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ$10,860
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%STAND WITH US: $2k → 14%ONE LOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%NYU FACES: $1k → 17%THE HOPE PROGRAM: $750 → 20%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $1k → 14%SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%TEMPLE B'NAI OR: $17k → 4%ALZHEIMERS NJ: $500 → 7%MAKE A WISH NJ: $1k → 8%THE MDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%STRIDES FOR HOPE: $1k → 16%OPERATION SECOND CHANCE: $1k → 8%ONE LOVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 13%NYU FACES: $500 → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $500 → 14%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $2k → 17%TEMPLE B'NAI OR: $15k → 4%STRIDES FOR HOPE: $1k → 16%OPERATION SECOND CHANCE: $1k → 8%ONE LOVE FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $500 → 13%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%TEMPLE B'NAI OR: $5k → 4%ONE LOVE FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%EVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $750 → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $2k → 4%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION: $2k → 17%JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICES: $2k → 4%THE VALERIE FUND: $2k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $2k → 17%TEMPLE B'NAI OR: $1k → 4%TEMPLE B'NAI OR: $1k → 4%JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICES: $1k → 4%JAZZ HOUSE KIDS: $1k → 16%HOMELESS SOLUTIONS: $800 → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $11k → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $11k → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $10k → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $6k → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $5k → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $4k → 4%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $2k → 4%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $585 → 4%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

WA
NY
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 12 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
24

Total granted

$116k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+13%

Still filing today

33%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalCrime & LegalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +145%
  • TV
    THE VALERIE FUND
    2× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +44%
  • OS
    Operation Second Chance Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • MD
    MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • TM
    THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -52%
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
3
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
4
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
5
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
6
Mjhs Hospice and Palliative Care Inc

To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis

Human Services
7
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
8
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
9
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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10
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
11
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
12
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Homeless Solutions Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE B'NAI OR: $38,500 · OtherTEMPLE B'NAI ORJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICES: $3,000 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUND: $2,250 · Other+22 more: $21,793 · Other+22 moreTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $55,800 · EducationTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR O…+1 more: $1,500 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $48,060 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER …+2 more: $800 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 · HealthMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $750 · HealthISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,800 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,800 · InternationalOperation Second Chance Inc: $2,000 · Public BenefitANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,800 · Civil Rights
Other$65,543Education$57,300Philanthropy$48,860Health$10,250International$3,600Public Benefit$2,000Civil Rights$1,800

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 budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $55,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $48,060 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbian Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Barry Novin Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barry Novin Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Partners for Women and Justice Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Barry Novin Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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