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Belz Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART INC | $714,285 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $600,000 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB | $365,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS | $302,400 |
| MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $280,500 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $250,054 |
| BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION | $200,202 |
| BORNBLUM JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH | $158,500 |
| ARTS MEMPHIS | $102,700 |
| YESHIVAT MAHARAT | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $51,850 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM | $50,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
157 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 89 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $4.2M · revenue +41%
- MBMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +302%
- BBB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB)6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- PIPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC (HEALTHWELFARE)one grant, 2020 · $112k
- PIPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAAREone grant, 2020 · $42k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
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.
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.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Baruch Umarpeh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
166 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. 166 of the 249 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
- Who funds Methodist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT MAHARAT INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY PLACE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSMEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TSFAT ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds BEN PORAT YOSEF INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Plough Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · Self Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · Thomas Garrott 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 Belz 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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