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Bernard and Sylvia Witt Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bernard and Sylvia Witt Foundation Inc

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$201kInternational$163kHuman Services$148kArts & Culture$99kReligion$68kEducation$48kPhilanthropy$40kCivil Rights$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Shearith Israel Synagogue Trust Fun$3,499
United Hatzaha of Israel$2,000
JGIVE-FRIEND of ASOR$2,000
Marcus Jewish Community Center of A$1,000
Jewish Family and Career Services$750
Marine Toys For Tots Foundation$250
Individual grant recipient$150
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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Because International: $1k → 11%Jewish Family and Children Services: $180 → 11%Because International: $250 → 11%American Friends of Yad Eliezer: $2k → 11%The Blue Card Inc: $1k → 17%Jewish Family and Career Services: $30k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family and Career Services: $750 → 14%Kids in Need: $250 → 13%Kids in Need: $200 → 13%Weinstein Hospice: $1k → 13%Weinstein Hospice: $1k → 13%Weinstein Hospice: $500 → 13%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

WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
GA
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$606k · 51 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
33

Total granted

$606k
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+49%

Still filing today

63%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +206%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $74k · revenue +127%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • AC
    AFLAC Children's Healthcare of Atla
    one grant, 2023 · $85k
  • PC
    Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • JH
    Jewish Home Life Communities Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +17%
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.

1
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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc

Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has acted on behalf of North America's Jewish communities and others to fulfill the principle that "kol Yisrael arevim zeh l'zeh" - all Jews are responsible for one…

International
3
Joint Israel

To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):

International
4
World Jewish Relief Usa Inc

World jewish relief usa inc supports life-saving and life-changing action to assist and empower people in crisis around the world.

Religion
5
Jewish Food Society Inc

Jewish food society works to preserve and celebrate jewish culinary heritage from around the world in order to increase awareness and deepen connections to jewish life. jfs is committed to showcasing the diversity of the jewish experience,…

Arts & Culture
6
American Friends of Jewish Hospitals and Education Centers of Brazil Inc
Philanthropy
7
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

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

Religion
8
Jewish Relief Network Ukraine

During the past year we provided humanitarian aid to more than 50,000 people in communities across Ukraine. We provided food, medicine, medical care, programs for children, lodging, counseling and much more. These efforts were carried out…

International
9
Yad Vashem Usa Foundation

Yad vashem usa foundation (the organization) is dedicated to support the memorialization and awareness of, and education regarding, the holocaust, as currently overseen, supervised and conducted by yad vashem, the holocaust martyrs and…

Arts & Culture
10
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
11
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

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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 Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kids in Need Inc. 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

44 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. 44 of the 88 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFLAC Children's Healthcare of Atla: $85,000 · OtherAFLAC Children's Healthcare of AtlaIndividual grant recipient: $60,002 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMarcus Jewish Community Center of A: $51,000 · OtherMarcus Jewish Community Center of APiedmont Columbus Regional Hospital: $50,000 · OtherPiedmont Columbus Regional HospitalShearith Israel Synagogue Trust Fun: $44,499 · OtherShearith Israel Synagogue Trust FunEmory University Giving: $20,000 · OtherCamp Judaea Inc: $28,000 · OtherCamp Judaea Inc+49 more: $136,475 · Other+49 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $144,560 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…+4 more: $4,775 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $74,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF U…RIVERCENTER INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERCENTER …SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $8,850 · Arts & CultureSPRINGER OPE…+1 more: $2,950 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $19,600 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyWYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC: $6,035 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,250 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $3,604 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $36,750 · Human ServicesThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,641 · Human Services+4 more: $2,880 · Human ServicesJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $14,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,550 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,500 · HealthThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $3,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $2,250 · Health
Other$474,976International$149,335Arts & Culture$97,800Philanthropy$48,489Human Services$43,771Housing & Shelter$37,500Health$31,300

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $144,560 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $74,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $36,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Judaea Inc: $28,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $19,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Welfare Federation of Columbus Georgia Inc: $12,007 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetRIVERCENTER INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC: $8,850 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC: $6,035 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetDeKalb Rape Crisis Center Inc: $5,801 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - ATLANTA SECTION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $3,764 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $3,604 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGE DOOR THEATRE INC: $2,950 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,641 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBecause International Corp: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA HONOR FLIGHT Middle Georgia Honor Flight: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAT MELECH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
  • Who funds Camp Judaea Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Welfare Federation of Columbus Georgia Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DeKalb Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - ATLANTA SECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The William Breman Jewish Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds STAGE DOOR THEATRE 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.

Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…Pat and Jack Wilensky…Cooper Family Foundat…The Frank Family Foun…Luci and Stan Sunshin…Marcia & Mark Miller …Winter Foundation IncThe Allan & Melanie N…Coddon Family Foundat…The Selig Foundation …The Marcus Foundation…Community Foundation …
Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable TrustDE17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Pat and Jack Wilensky Family Foundation · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · Marcia & Mark Miller Family Foundation · Winter Foundation Inc · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin Foundation Inc · Coddon Family Foundation · The Selig Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc

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 Bernard and Sylvia Witt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard and Sylvia Witt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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