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Blechman-Morenoff Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
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 2024.

Philanthropy$7kEducation$7kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$5kArts & Culture$4kFood & Nutrition$4kReligion$3kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
7
States reached
$159k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKIVA YAVNEH ACADEMY OF DALLAS$1,000
LUSGARTEN- PANCREATIC CANCER RES$1,000
FISHER CENTER-ALZHEIMER'S RES CTR$500
STAND WITH US$500
MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$400
CHADBAD AT TEXAS UNIV$400
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$375
BETHESDA CARES$350
BREAD FOR THE CITY$350
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$300
WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION$250
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE$250
MASORTI$250
Individual grant recipient$200
C&O CANAL TRUST$200
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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETHESDA CARES: $350 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $350 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $350 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $350 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $250 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $250 → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $250 → 8%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

NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 30 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
6

Total granted

$44k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +70%
  • MH
    MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +114%
  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • MF
    MASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IN ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · $300
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN
    one grant, 2022 · $250
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS-MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2022 · $150
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
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington Dc Inc

Guided by jewish values and heritage, the edlavitch dc jewish community center (edcjcc) engages individuals and families through its cultural, recreational, educational, and social justice programs by welcoming people of all backgrounds to…

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7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
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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9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
11
Meridian International Center

Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…

International
12
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery Housing Partnership Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

20 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. 20 of the 39 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)
19/20
Grantees still filing
20/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR: $4,300 · OtherLUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FORAKIBA ACADEMY OF DALLAS: $4,000 · OtherAKIBA ACADEMY OF DALLASLUSGARTEN- PANCREATIC CANCER RES: $3,000 · OtherLUSGARTEN- PANCREATIC CANCER RESAKIVA YAVNEH ACADEMY OF DALLAS: $3,000 · OtherAKIVA YAVNEH ACADEMY OF DALLASTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,225 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCFISHER CENTER-ALZHEIMER'S RES CTR: $1,500 · OtherMASORTI FOUNDATION FOR: $1,200 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR WEIZMANN: $1,050 · OtherC&O CANAL TRUST INC: $1,400 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 · Other+17 more: $6,615 · Other+17 moreSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,150 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTH…IMAGINATION STAGE INC: $1,600 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION ST…MONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOU…WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $800 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUN…BREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $3,050 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $700 · Food & NutritionMONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,800 · Housing & ShelterBETHESDA CARES INC: $2,150 · Human ServicesTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,600 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 · HealthISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 · International
Other$29,290Arts & Culture$6,050Food & Nutrition$3,750Housing & Shelter$2,800Human Services$2,150Health$1,700International$1,500

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 budgetAKIBA ACADEMY OF DALLAS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $3,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,225 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC: $2,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINATION STAGE INC: $1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetC&O CANAL TRUST INC: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $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.

  • Who funds AKIBA ACADEMY OF DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds C&O CANAL TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association 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.

United Way of the National Capital AreaVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Blechman-Morenoff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blechman-Morenoff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 39 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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