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Bk Family Foundation Inc

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.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$38MEducation$218kReligion$195kInternational$162kHealth$154kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kAnimals$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$27,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA$72,000
BRAVMANN BERLIN PHILANTHROPIC FUND$27,100
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$24,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BECAUSE INTERNATIONALORG: $100 → 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1k → 6%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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 3 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
23

Total granted

$128k
$925k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

67%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SA
    SALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $116k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $410k · revenue -28%
  • AS
    ALEPH SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue 0%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $101k · revenue +13%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
8
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
9
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
—
10
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
11
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
12
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc; the most unlike its peers is Because International Corp. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $26,823,950 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $10,437,449 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+2 more: $435,000 · PhilanthropySALANTER AKIBA RIVERDALE ACADEMY: $116,177 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER TEL HASHOMER INC: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $72,000 · OtherBRAVMANN BERLIN PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $27,100 · Other+5 more: $17,716 · OtherALEPH SOCIETY INC: $110,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHVUT AMI: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $10,000 · International+2 more: $3,718 · InternationalYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $101,173 · EducationINTERNATIONAL BEIT DIN INC: $54,000 · Crime & LegalOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $10,000 · ReligionZAKA NORTH INC: $10,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $1,800 · ReligionEFRAT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION USA INC: $1,000 · Religion+1 more: $180 · ReligionISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2,000 · Human ServicesBecause International Corp: $100 · Human Services
Philanthropy$37,696,399Other$332,993International$228,818Education$101,173Crime & Legal$54,000Religion$22,980Human Services$2,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $26,823,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $10,437,449 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $410,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEPH SOCIETY INC: $110,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $101,173 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER TEL HASHOMER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BEIT DIN INC: $54,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Hebrew Academy: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBecause International Corp: $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.

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…FjcJewish Federation of …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Ojc FundMorgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Jewish Communal FundNY24.7× affinity12 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 Greater Metrowest NJ · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ojc Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Bk Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bk Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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 Bk Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bk Family Foundation Inc 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 31 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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