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Birnbaum Family 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.

$365k
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.4MHuman Services$151kEducation$138kPhilanthropy$92kYouth Development$50kInternational$39kCrime & Legal$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k62 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $186k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,613
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWNSTONE EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION$50,000
FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH$35,000
YESHIVA ADERES HATORAH$32,000
KEREN CHASANIM OF SAAD L TALMUD$29,500
CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZEDAKAH V'CHESED$25,000
MACHON MASHE ROCKEACH INC$17,000
OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC$12,200
TALMUDIC UNIVERSITY$10,000
CHASDEI AVOS$10,000
CONGREGATION TASHBAR TORAS CHAIM INC$9,100
Individual grant recipient$8,960
TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC$7,500
YESHIVA TORAT EMET$6,000
CHABAD OF THE BAY AREA$5,500
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 (FY18–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ISRAEL SELECT CHARITY FUND INC: $2k → 14%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $30k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $25k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $11k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $10k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $4k → 6%BONEI OLAM: $3k → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $18k → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $18k → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 20%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
WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
GA
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 25 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$2.3M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+58%

Still filing today

36%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $763k · revenue +37%
  • DM
    DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +120%
  • OC
    Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHEVRA SHAS KEREN YESHUA
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • SG
    SEFARDIC GAN & TORAT EMET
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • YT
    YESHIVA TORAS MOSHE
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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5
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion
6
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
7
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
8
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
9
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
11
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
12
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohr Nosson 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

33 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. 33 of the 104 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
16/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $745,000 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCCHEVRA SHAS KEREN YESHUA: $250,000 · OtherCHEVRA SHAS KEREN YESHUAIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · Other+73 more: $543,863 · Other+73 moreFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC: $763,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC+3 more: $10,304 · PhilanthropyDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $79,600 · Human ServicesOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $71,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,300 · Human ServicesMIKVAH USA INC: $63,500 · ReligionCAMP MORASHA INC: $50,000 · ReligionMINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Religion+7 more: $5,720 · ReligionTHE BROWNSTONE EXPERIENCE FOUNDATIO: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $21,900 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $12,200 · EducationSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $21,000 · InternationalCHASDEI AVOS: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $5,000 · InternationalMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $66,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,603,863Philanthropy$773,304Human Services$154,900Religion$124,220Education$91,100International$71,000Arts & Culture$66,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC: $763,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $79,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $71,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC: $66,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $63,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCAMP MORASHA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROWNSTONE EXPERIENCE FOUNDATIO: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC: $21,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $12,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHASDEI AVOS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHASDEI YISROEL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHATZALAH OF HOUSTON: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHelping Hands Food Ko Op Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Unity International Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Morris M Horowitz Kollel: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYehudi Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR NOSSON INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNoam Shabbos Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTomchei Yosef Tzvi: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHASDEI MEIR INC: $54 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 FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds MACHON MASEH ROCKEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MORASHA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROWNSTONE EXPERIENCE FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds TOV VCHESED FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RCT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC ↗
  • Who funds CHASDEI AVOS ↗
  • Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
  • Who funds HATZALAH OF HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC GAN TORAT EMET 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.

The Ezra Charitable T…The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundAssociated Jewish Cha…The Zev and Susan Mun…Zichron Chaim Charity…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Traditional Fund IncThe Basch Family Foun…The Sorala FoundationZichron Yechiel Meche…Fjc
The Ezra Charitable TrustNY57.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ezra Charitable Trust · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Traditional Fund Inc · The Basch Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Fjc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Food Ko Op Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Birnbaum Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Birnbaum Family 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 104 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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