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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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$714k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$6.1MEducation$5.2MHealth$5.1MArts & Culture$3.5MInternational$2.3MReligion$2.1MCommunity Improvement$760kAnimals$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.5M
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HADASSAH NY$50,000
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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 11%GO LUCY GO FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 14%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $425 → 15%RESPECTABILITY: $4k → 8%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $375 → 15%ZAKA SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $1k → 10%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $350 → 15%ZAKA SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $1k → 10%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $300 → 15%KAVOD: $1k → 12%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $360 → 6%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $360 → 6%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $350 → 6%THE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $300 → 6%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $400 → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $350 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 157 repeat orgs$642k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
76

Total granted

$20M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+38%

Still filing today

74%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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× · 2020–2023 · $4.2M · revenue +41%
  • MB
    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +302%
  • BB
    B'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

  • PI
    PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC (HEALTHWELFARE)
    one grant, 2020 · $112k
  • PI
    PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE
    one grant, 2020 · $42k
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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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2
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
4
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
5
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
6
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
7
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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9
The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International
10
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
11
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
12
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

166 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. 166 of the 249 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/166
Grantees still filing
119/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $4,155,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $600,000 · EducationYESHIVAT MAHARAT INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $360,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORI…+11 more: $252,925 · EducationMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,657,400 · PhilanthropyMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERA…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION…UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $883,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MID…PEABODY PLACE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $582,000 · PhilanthropyPEABODY PLACE MUSEUM …+10 more: $228,277 · PhilanthropyB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB): $2,115,180 · HealthB'NAI B'RITH HOME AN…Methodist Healthcare Foundation: $2,076,250 · HealthMethodist Healthcare…Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $250,054 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $206,525 · Health+11 more: $69,725 · HealthJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL: $1,075,000 · OtherJEWISH AGENCY FOR IS…BARON HIRSCH CONGREGATION: $683,841 · OtherBARON HIRSCH CONGREG…YAD VASHEM INC: $440,000 · OtherYAD VASHEM INCBOMBLUM JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $325,000 · OtherBOMBLUM JEWISH COMMU…Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $755,000 · OtherHadassah The Women's…+97 more: $1,036,136 · Other+97 moreMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $2,209,523 · Arts & CultureMemphis Broo…ARTSMEMPHIS: $581,400 · Arts & CultureARTSMEMPHIS+24 more: $143,646 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $1,814,230 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $104,500 · Religion+4 more: $65,275 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $675,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $311,100 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $185,000 · International+19 more: $96,375 · International
Education$5,367,925Philanthropy$4,850,677Health$4,717,734Other$4,564,977Arts & Culture$2,934,569Religion$1,984,005International$1,267,475

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $4,155,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMemphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc: $2,209,523 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB): $2,115,180 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Foundation: $2,076,250 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS: $1,814,230 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMEMPHIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,657,400 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $883,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $755,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $675,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC: $600,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPEABODY PLACE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $582,000 over 6y, 89% of budgetARTSMEMPHIS: $581,400 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $311,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $206,525 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $185,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $144,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMemphis Zoological Society: $113,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $104,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $66,767 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc: $59,800 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF TSFAT: $58,300 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEN PORAT YOSEF INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMPHIS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $34,150 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $30,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $27,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $18,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $18,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPERA MEMPHIS INC: $13,231 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $12,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOTE 70 INC: $10,250 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetALEPH SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $9,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $8,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $7,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL INC: $7,175 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEMPHIS FRIENDS OF ISRAEL: $6,000 over 2y, 20% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN59.5× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Belz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Belz 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 249 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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