Tennessee · Private foundation
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.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $714,285
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 141
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Belz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 74 | $3.4M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 89 | $3.5M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 100 | $4.9M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 141 | $3.3M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 141 | $3.2M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 136 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University | $4,155,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc | $2,209,523 | 5 | 2% |
| B'Nai B'Rith Home and Hospital for Aged Inc (D/B/A Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab) | $2,115,180 | 6 | 2% |
| Methodist Healthcare Foundation | $2,076,250 | 6 | 9% |
| United Way of the Mid South | $883,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc | $755,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Baron Hirsch Congregation | $683,841 | 6 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $675,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yeshivat Maharat Inc | $600,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Peabody Place Museum Foundation | $582,000 | 6 | 89% |
Show all 175 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Belz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 151 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Belz Foundation
- How much does Belz Foundation give?
- Belz Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $3,962,257 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 141 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Belz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (20%), Health (20%).
- Who are Belz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Yeshiva University ($4.2M), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ($2.2M), B'Nai B'Rith Home and Hospital for Aged Inc (D/B/A Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab) ($2.1M).
- Does Belz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Belz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Belz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Jewish Foundation of Memphis, Plough Foundation.
- Where is Belz Foundation based?
- Belz Foundation is based in TN.
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