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Belz 2008 Foundation

The foundation is organized to operate exclusively for charitable purposes by conducting or supporting activities solely for the benefit of, and to further the purposes of, the jewish foundation of memphis, a nonprofit charitable organization.

$183k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$183k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$807kPhilanthropy$385kReligion$371kHealth$75kInternational$60kEnvironment$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$183,226
Median grant
1
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART INC$183,226
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%MASSACHUSTTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOG: $6k → 8%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 17%YESHIVAT MAHARAT: $18k → 28%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $52k → 14%TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC: $12k → 14%MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $225k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $60k → 17%YESHIVAT MAHARAT: $18k → 28%THE ISRAEL PROJECT: $8k → 14%TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC: $12k → 14%BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION: $200k → 17%TENNESSEE HOLOCAUST COMMISSION INC: $12k → 14%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $50k → 17%BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION: $122k → 17%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $50k → 17%BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION: $33k → 17%MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART: $388k → 17%MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART INC: $183k → 17%PEABODY PLACE MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR THE LIBRARY: $10k → 17%WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%UNITED WAY OF THE MIDSOUTH: $60k → 17%MARGOLIN HEBREW ACADEMYFYOS: $10k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 6 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$2.2M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
  • MB
    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $571k · revenue +2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +227%

Funded once

  • PP
    PEABODY PLACE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -97%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -16%
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue -6%
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
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
2
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
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
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
5
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
6
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
7
One Family Memphis
Human Services
8
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
9
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
10
The University of Memphis Research Foundation

To encourage, promote and aid the fulfillment of education, research and service functions of the university of memphis (u of m) and to encourage, promote and aid the transfer of technology generated in the course of research by u of m…

Education
11
University of Mississippi Foundation

The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…

Education
12
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Jewish Federation; the most unlike its peers is Peabody Place Museum Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,095,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Education+2 more: $15,500 · EducationMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $570,866 · Arts & CultureMemphis Brooks Museum of…The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc: $35,700 · Arts & CultureThe Tennessee Holocaust …MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $225,000 · PhilanthropyMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDE…PEABODY PLACE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyPEABODY PLACE MUSEU…UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE M…BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION: $355,252 · OtherBARON HIRSCH CO…+3 more: $23,750 · Other+3 moreJEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $100,000 · ReligionMethodist Healthcare Foundation: $75,000 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $51,850 · InternationalWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Environment
Education$1,150,500Arts & Culture$606,566Philanthropy$485,000Other$379,002Religion$100,000Health$75,000International$51,850Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,095,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $570,866 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $225,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $51,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc: $35,700 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $5,500 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.

Belz FoundationJewish Foundation of …Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Belz FoundationTN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Belz Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis 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 Belz 2008 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Belz 2008 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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How do I get to Belz 2008 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Belz 2008 Foundation 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 17 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 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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