· Private foundation
Bemak 2014 Family Foundation Sullman and Nancy Bemak Ttee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of BEMAK 2014 FAMILY FOUNDATION SULLMAN AND NANCY BEMAK TTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $3,660 |
| BAIS MEDRASH OF BERGENFIELD | $2,714 |
| HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE | $1,500 |
| SAR ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $900 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL | $700 |
| MSUD FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP | $500 |
| EAST END ERUV ASSOC | $360 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $300 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $264 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| WEST SIDE HATZOLAH | $200 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN | $180 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF JERUSALEM | $54 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $498 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +52%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +58%
- WSWest Side Hatzoloh6× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- CUCTEEN UPPER WEST SIDE INCone grant, 2024 · $2k
- TMTHE MAASER FUND CORPone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -60%
- CICENTRAL ISRAEL FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc and the most unlike its peers is Hebrew Day School of Sullivan and Ulster Counties Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds EAST END ERUV ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds THE MAASER FUND CORP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MADRAIGOS INC ↗
- Who funds GLEASONS GIVE A KID A DREAM INC DBA GLEASONS ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds CORAL GABLES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Students Care Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds HEBREW DAY SCHOOL OF SULLIVAN AND ULSTER COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS VILLAGE OF JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL ISRAEL ORPHAN HOME FOR GIRLS ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · David and Adrienne Greenblatt Foundation · Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Ojc Fund · Mutual of America Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Bemak 2014 Family Foundation Sullman and Nancy Bemak Ttee 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% 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.