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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.

$607k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$2.0MHuman Services$883kReligion$476kFood & Nutrition$366kRecreation & Sports$289kPhilanthropy$238kEducation$115kCivil Rights$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $286k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
$36,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC$36,000
THE CLARION PROJECT$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
02The need
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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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BLUE CARD: $50k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $40k → 17%THE BLUE CARD: $36k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $136k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $112k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $76k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $73k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $40k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $40k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $40k → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $40k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
DC
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 17 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$3.5M
$351k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+47%

Still filing today

76%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • BE
    BELEV ECHAD INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue ×84 · 25% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $473k · revenue +200%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    8× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • GJ
    GLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TI
    THE ISRAEL PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • FL
    Fuente Latina Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +335%
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
Sherit Isroel
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3
The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International
4
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Shalem Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
8
Connect Israel

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.

International
9
Israel-America Academic Exchange

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…

International
10
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
11
Boundless Israel Inc

The organization is a think-action tank partnering with community leaders to revitalize israel education and take bold collective action to combat jew-hatred.

Education
12
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 40 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $473,000 · InternationalTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INCCentral Fund of Israel: $471,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $293,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $140,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK: $100,000 · InternationalGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORKFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $65,000 · International+4 more: $91,000 · InternationalBELEV ECHAD INC: $557,400 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INCTHE BLUE CARD INC: $326,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE CARD INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $366,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF L…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $256,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT …JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $212,911 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGUSH ETZION FOUNDATION: $137,864 · OtherGUSH ETZION F…CONGREGATION BNAI JEHOSHUA BETH ELOHIM: $87,275 · OtherCONGREGATION …THE AMEL PROJECT: $77,000 · OtherTHE AMEL PROJ…THE ISRAEL PROJECT: $40,000 · OtherTHE ISRAEL PR…KING SOLOMON SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INC: $25,000 · OtherAMERICA'S VOICES IN ISRAEL: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherJEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $36,000 · OtherJEWISH LEADER…+8 more: $55,547 · Other+8 moreNorthwestern University: $284,394 · Recreation & SportsOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $142,000 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Jewish Statesmanship Center Inc: $22,000 · ReligionGreater Miami Hebrew Academy: $18,000 · ReligionCLARION PROJECT INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
International$1,718,500Human Services$883,400Philanthropy$849,911Other$519,686Recreation & Sports$284,394Religion$182,000Arts & Culture$76,000

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 budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $557,400 over 8y, 25% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $473,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $471,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $366,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $326,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $293,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $284,394 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $256,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $212,911 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $142,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $140,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL JEWISH ASSISTANCE & RELIEF NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $65,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $51,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuente Latina Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jewish Statesmanship Center Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICES IN ISRAEL: $18,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSLINGSHOT FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL SPORT CENTER FOR THE DISABLED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $4,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONTINA IMPACT: $3,391 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 FundJewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Fede…Goodman Family Suppor…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY19.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bimah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bimah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bimah Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bimah Foundation 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 40 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home