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Bartenura Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC$3,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM 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
INSTITUTE OF JEWISH IDEAS AND IDEALS$500
LITERACY INC$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL: $18k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $18k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $13k → 17%CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT: $10k → 17%ARTIS CONTEMPORARY: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $9k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT: $9k → 17%TEL AVIV MUSEUM AMERICAN FRIENDS: $9k → 17%JOSEPH WISE FREE SYNOGUOGE: $9k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $5k → 17%TEL AVIV MUSEUM AMERICAN FRIENDS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MORASHA: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MORASHA: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM: $4k → 17%LITERACY INC: $4k → 17%FRIENDS OF BOZOLAL ACADEMY: $4k → 17%ETZION FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UMMEL FAHEM MUSEUM: $3k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $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%JEW BELONG: $2k → 17%THE FRUM A CU FOUNDAITON: $2k → 17%JEWISH ORTHODOX FEMINIST ALLIANCE: $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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

+44%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
—
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
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 48 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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

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 Bartenura Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bartenura Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 48 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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