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Bimah 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $286k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELEV ECHAD | $112,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $76,000 |
| JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA | $65,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $55,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $45,000 |
| THE BLUE CARD | $40,000 |
| THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| THE CLARION PROJECT | $36,000 |
| JEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC | $36,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $35,000 |
| OPENDOR MEDIA INC | $20,000 |
| THE AMEL PROJECT | $20,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI HEBREW ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| THE JEWISH POCET | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $883k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BEBELEV ECHAD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue ×84 · 25% of their budget
- TLTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $473k · revenue +200%
- CFCentral Fund of Israel8× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- GJGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
- TITHE ISRAEL PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $40k
- FLFuente Latina Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +335%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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.
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.
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.
Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The organization is a think-action tank partnering with community leaders to revitalize israel education and take bold collective action to combat jew-hatred.
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Pocet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE CARD INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Fuente Latina Inc ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Jewish Statesmanship Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Miami Hebrew Academy ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VOICES IN ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH POCET ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONTINA IMPACT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Goodman Family Supporting Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bimah Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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