· Private foundation
BBC 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of BBC Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Ojc Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year BBC Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 31 organizations, $318k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k104 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OJC FUND | $75,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $58,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,738 |
| CONGREGATION YETEV LEV | $22,922 |
| Cong Chasdei Yetev Lev | $10,000 |
| Cong Chasdei Yetev Lev | $9,756 |
| Talmud Torah Dnitra | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| CHAYIM VCHESED INC | $7,100 |
| CHONEN VNOSEN | $6,220 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OHR CHODOSH INC | $5,000 |
| Heichel Hatorah | $4,496 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $213) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +115% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CVCHAYIM V CHESED3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +85%
- BLBAYIS LEPLEITOS - ATERES BONOS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +103%
- OHOHR HAMAIER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $45k
- CYCong YL S 8 Stone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TTTalmud Torahone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
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.
Providing financial assistance to emergency organizations as well as other charitable, educational, and religious organizations worldwide.
The furtherance of primacy of orthodox jewish jurisprudence
The entity's mission is to engage in humanitarian assistanceby distributing food and other essential needs to needy families.
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
To spread the teachings and philosophies of the holy Ohr Hachaim, an eighteenth century Bible Commentator, Talmudist and Kabbalist by making his work available
How this is measured
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 169 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · Bochner Foundation · Kanfei Yoneh Foundation · R' Shaya Ben Moshe Foundation · Nimlach Foundation · Yr Foundation · Kee Seesu Foundation · Blum Foundation · A&E Hauer Family Foundation · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization BBC Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BBC Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Heichal Hatorah: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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