· Public charity
Bnai Brith Foundation of the United States
The mission of the b'nai b'rith foundation is to operate a charitable "endowment" fund to support b'nai b'rith's national charities and non-related charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
- $250k+1 grant · $647k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL | $646,775 |
| AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| HILLEL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH LIFE | $35,925 |
| TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION | $18,094 |
| BBYO INC | $15,205 |
| TEXAS A&M HILLEL FOUNDATION | $13,467 |
| HOUSTON HILLEL INC | $13,304 |
| HILLEL OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,784 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 95% of Bnai Brith Foundation of the United States’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- THTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $92k · revenue +8%
- BBB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +61%
- HHHouston Hillel5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +102%
Funded once
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEone grant, 2025 · $36k · revenue 0%
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.
Enrich the lives of jewish students
To enrich the lives of jewish students and young adults in the dallas area so they may enrich the jewish people around the world and to provide opportunities to explore and celebrate their jewish identities.
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
social, religious, cultural programs for Jewish students at Bradley University
Tulane hillel serves as a jewish resource on the tulane university campus in new orleans. tulane hillel creates a radically inclusive community, develops students' leadership, and encourages curiosity through our jewish values.
To enrich the lives of students so they may enrich the jewish community and the world.
To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world.
Enriching the lives of Jewish students and staff at Arizona State University through dynamic and innovative programming which deepens understanding of and creates excitement for Jewish life SO THEY MAY ENRICH THE JEWISH PEOPLE, ISRAEL AND…
Hillel of Colorado seeks to engage, empower, and work with Jewish college students to create Jewish communities at University of Denver, Colorado State University, Auraria Campus, Colorado School of Mines and other front range…
Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Hillel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Hillel at Texas a&M. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 B NAI B RITH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Hillel ↗
- Who funds The Hillel at Texas A&M ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds HILLELS OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
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 Bnai Brith Foundation of the United States 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.