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Bartenura Foundation

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.

$72k
Granted FY2020
21
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

57% of Bartenura Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Bartenura Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $72k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
3
’18
7
’19
14
’20
0
’21
2
’22
6
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Arts & Culture$294kPhilanthropy$178kEducation$142kInternational$43kReligion$30kYouth Development$15kSocial Science$6kHousing & Shelter$860Other$0
02FY2020 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k17 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$297k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHANNEL ED FOUNDATION$17,246
TEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS$14,500
ARTIS$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC$3,600
CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UMM EL-FAHEM MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$3,000
STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE$2,000
JEWISH ORTHODOX FEMINIST ALLIANCE$1,800
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$1,150
MUSICAMBIA$1,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP FOR JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS$1,000
BATONGA FOUNDATION$500
LITERACY INC$500
INSTITUTE OF JEWISH IDEAS AND IDEALS$500
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $4k → 14%CHANNEL ED FOUNDATION: $17k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $4k → 17%NEW YORK CITY DEP OF EDUCATION: $103k → 20%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $75k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $75k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $60k → 17%TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART: $55k → 17%ARTIS CONTEMPORARY: $29k → 17%ITREK: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $21k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UMMEL FAHEM MUSEUM: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $18k → 17%NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL: $18k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $13k → 17%CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT: $10k → 17%ARTIS CONTEMPORARY: $10k → 17%TEL AVIV MUSEUM AMERICAN FRIENDS: $9k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $9k → 17%JOSEPH WISE FREE SYNOGUOGE: $9k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT: $9k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $5k → 17%TEL AVIV MUSEUM AMERICAN FRIENDS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MORASHA: $4k → 17%LITERACY INC: $4k → 17%FRIENDS OF BOZOLAL ACADEMY: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MORASHA: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UMMEL FAHEM MUSEUM: $3k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $3k → 17%ETZION FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%JEWISH ORTHODOX FEMINIST ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $2k → 17%STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 17%JEWISH FOUNDATION NETWORK: $2k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM: $2k → 17%JEWISH ORTHODOX FEMINIST ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%JEW BELONG: $2k → 17%THE FRUM A CU FOUNDAITON: $2k → 17%ANNA RODRIGUES: $1k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $11k → 17%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $1k → 17%ARTIST CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL ART: $20k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $12k → 17%TEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS: $15k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UMM EL-FAHEM MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $3k → 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$256k · 17 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$256k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+40%

Still filing today

65%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalPhilanthropyReligionEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK
    3× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +6%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +23%
  • AF
    American Friends of Bet Morasha
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • NL
    NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +40%

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
University of Judaism Foundation
—
2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
4
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.

Education
7
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Sherit Isroel
—
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
12
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Garde Arts Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr22%31%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr22%15%20–35yr14%52%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
11%
2,119/20,157

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM — $121,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUMNEW YORK CITY DEP OF EDUCATION — $103,471 · OtherNEW YORK CITY DEP OF EDUCATIONTEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART — $55,000 · OtherTEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ARTIndividual grant recipient — $39,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UMMEL FAHEM MUSEUM — $23,000 · OtherARTIST CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL ART — $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL — $18,000 · OtherCHANNEL ED FOUNDATION — $17,246 · Other+19 more — $64,290 · Other+19 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC — $14,500 · PhilanthropyTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIE…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $12,850 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORKTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $12,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC — $9,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyITREK INC — $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $12,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $3,960 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UMM EL-FAHEM MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AR — $3,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $2,030 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Bet Morasha — $7,200 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA — $4,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC — $1,860 · ReligionJEWBELONG INC — $1,800 · ReligionYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $5,000 · EducationLITERACY INC — $4,600 · EducationJewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc — $5,700 · Social ScienceAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGarde Arts Center Inc — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$461,007Philanthropy$209,850International$46,490Religion$14,860Education$9,600Social Science$5,700Arts & Culture$2,000

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetITREK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC — $14,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $12,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Bet Morasha — $7,200 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc — $5,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC — $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $3,960 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $2,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH IDEAS & IDEALS INC — $1,860 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWBELONG INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATONGA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICAMBIA INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarde Arts Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …FjcJewish Community Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY24.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Bartenura Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–25%
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.

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 48 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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