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Bernard M Twersky Foundation Zev Berman Trustee at a glance

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Bernard M Twersky Foundation Zev Berman Trustee

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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$328kEducation$129kInternational$30kYouth Development$11kSocial Science$760Arts & Culture$500Science & Tech$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$247k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$10,000
YAD AHARON$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YESHIVA SHAALVIM: $5k → 6%YESHIVA BAIS BINYAMIN: $4k → 14%YESHIVA BAIS BINYAMIN: $4k → 9%ETZION FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%EZRA ACADEMY: $3k → 13%YESHIVA BAIS BINYAMIN: $4k → 9%ETZION FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%EZRA ACADEMY: $3k → 13%YESHIVA BAIS BINYAMIN: $4k → 9%ETZION FOUNDATION: $28k → 7%EZRA ACADEMY: $1k → 13%YESHIVA BAIS BINYAMIN: $4k → 9%ETZION FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%RABBI ISAAC ELCHNAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $75k → 17%ETZION FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%ETZION FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%ETZION FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $2k → 6%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%MAAYANOT HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $5k → 7%RABBI ISAAC ELCHNAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15k → 17%MAAYANOT HS FOR GIRLS: $2k → 7%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%MAAYANOT HS FOR GIRLS: $2k → 7%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%MAAYANOT HS FOR GIRLS: $2k → 7%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%CON RINAT YISROEL: $2k → 7%MAAYANOT HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $2k → 7%YI OF JAMAICA ESTATES: $11k → 13%YI OF JAMAICA ESTATES: $4k → 13%YAD AHARON: $10k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDA: $2k → 17%YESHIVA YAD AHRON: $6k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDA: $2k → 17%YESHIVA YAD AAHRON: $6k → 20%YAD AHARON: $6k → 20%YESHIVA YAD AAHRON: $6k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ: $8k → 17%YESHIVA YAD AAHRON: $6k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ: $7k → 17%YAD AHARON: $5k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONEVEZ: $4k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONEVEZ: $2k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$512k · 25 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
30

Total granted

$512k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+44%

Still filing today

24%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • EF
    ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +101%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +39%
  • RI
    RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $91k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -11%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
4
University of Judaism Foundation
—
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
Sherit Isroel
—
8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
Bais Yisrael Foundation
—
10
Passaic Hebrew Institute

YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…

Education
11
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
12
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

14 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. 14 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $91,000 · EducationRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY+3 more: $1,140 · EducationETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $148,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVE…+2 more: $3,970 · ReligionYESHIVA YAD AHARON INC: $24,000 · OtherYESHIVA YAD AHARON INCYAD AHARON: $21,000 · OtherYAD AHARONIndividual grant recipient: $20,180 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYI OF JAMAICA ESTATES: $15,450 · OtherYI OF JAMAICA ESTATESEZRA ACADEMY: $10,700 · OtherEZRA ACADEMYMAAYANOT HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $6,300 · OtherMAAYANOT HS FOR GIRLS: $6,000 · OtherYESHIVA ZICHRON MEILECH INC: $5,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+33 more: $27,495 · Other+33 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC: $28,400 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $2,000 · International+1 more: $360 · InternationalCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentALGEMEINER INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Education$202,140Religion$151,970Other$141,375International$30,760Youth Development$5,250Arts & Culture$500

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 budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $148,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $91,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC: $28,400 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $5,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AFIKIM FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALGEMEINER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC: $100 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 ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PONOVEZ ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME ↗
  • Who funds THE AFIKIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALGEMEINER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BET EL YESHIVA ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundRegina Goldwasser Fou…National Society for …Jack Adjmi Family Fou…FjcGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY22× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 M Twersky Foundation Zev Berman Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard M Twersky Foundation Zev Berman Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Bergen County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Bernard M Twersky Foundation Zev Berman Trustee 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 55 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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