· Private foundation
Beren Sea Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $296k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION | $2,775,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $1,100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,234 |
| PENN HILLEL | $85,000 |
| MID-KANSAS JEWISH FEDERATION | $60,018 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $51,000 |
| WICHITA COMMUNITY TENNIS INC | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION | $11,500 |
| WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WICHITA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,501 |
| WSU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAUREEN CONNOLLY BRINKER TENNIS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LIVINGTREE SCHOOL | $180 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $155 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +348% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +348% · 72% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2024 · $175k
- PHPENN HILLEL2× · 2023–2024 · $135k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $200k
- AAAHAVATH ACHIM CONGREGATIONone grant, 2023 · $103k
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
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.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
To further jewish education in israel
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The mission of children's health alliance for israel, inc. (chai) is to raise and administer funds for schneider children medical center of israel (scmci), israel's only hospital exclusively dedicated to the healthcare of all children,…
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.
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.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
Make an authentic jewish education, coupled with an excellent secular education, available and affordable to all jewish families in the chicagoland community.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-KANSAS JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COMMUNITY TENNIS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Fou ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Beren Sea Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beren Sea Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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