· Private foundation
Bernard & Nita Trugman Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MA | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE | $4,000 |
| JFEDLA | $3,000 |
| MAZON | $2,400 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $2,400 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $900 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $540 |
| ALHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $360 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $360 |
| NRDC | $360 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $180 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HIHIAS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +122%
- MAMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +50%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM6× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- SFS FOR ALL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ROREACH OUT READone grant, 2023 · $3k
- MFMusicLink Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +37%
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 organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.
The auschwitz institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. we aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of…
Aifd's mission is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of our u.s. constitution, liberty, and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state. public engagement program provides education to the general public on…
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…
The federation movement protects and enhances the well-being of jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and torah (jewish learning). the jewish federations of north…
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 31 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MusicLink Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard & Nita Trugman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard & Nita Trugman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
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