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Better Communities Together Foundation

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.

$484k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$255,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$9.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Religion$360kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bais Tefila$100,0001n/a
Kinder Shuvah$100,0001n/a
Light Source Foundation$45,260299%
Jewish Inspiration Initiative Inc$24,0001n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles$20,00020%
Touch of Kindness Inc$20,0001n/a
Netaneli Hebrew Academy$16,0001n/a
Kehilas Lev Simcha$10,0001n/a
Emek Hebrew Day School$8,5232n/a
Valley Village Community Kollel Inc$6,0001n/a
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All grantees of Better Communities Together Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bais Tefila$100,0001n/a
Kinder Shuvah$100,0001n/a
Light Source Foundation$45,260299%
Jewish Inspiration Initiative Inc$24,0001n/a
Yeshiva Ketana of Los Angeles$20,00020%
Touch of Kindness Inc$20,0001n/a
Netaneli Hebrew Academy$16,0001n/a
Kehilas Lev Simcha$10,0001n/a
Emek Hebrew Day School$8,5232n/a
Valley Village Community Kollel Inc$6,0001n/a
Chabad of Burbank$2,5002n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($336k), not named here.

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.

Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation IncCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Better Communities Together Foundation

How much does Better Communities Together Foundation give?
Better Communities Together Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $484,279 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Better Communities Together Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Education (3%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Better Communities Together Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Bais Tefila ($100k), Kinder Shuvah ($100k), Light Source Foundation ($45k).
Does Better Communities Together Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Better Communities Together Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ari and Nechama Baer Foundation Inc, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Federation Council of Greater La.
Where is Better Communities Together Foundation based?
Better Communities Together Foundation is based in CA.

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 17 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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