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Bnai Sara Foundation Inc

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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0159% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$5.0MHealth$279kHuman Services$118kInternational$49kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONG BOBOV 45$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHOE DISCOUNT CORP: $10k → 20%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $18k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $18k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $18k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $18k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $18k → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $18k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 11 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +316% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$2.6M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+316%
+63%

Still filing today

18%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2017–2022 · $825k
  • CB
    Cong Bobov 45
    5× · 2018–2024 · $505k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2018–2023 · $400k

Funded once

  • CO
    CONG OHR CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3.7M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $160k · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
2
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
4
The Keren Rachaim Fund
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Partners Charity Fund for Israel

To support charitable organization and programs providing food, clothing and financial aid to indigent individuals and families in financial distress.

Philanthropy
8
Keren Avraham Shmuel Inc Wachman
Philanthropy
9
Keren Yad Le-Yosef Foundation Trust
10
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
11
Israel Select Charity Fund Inc

Helping individuals and organizations with great needs and little resources and with often few options.

Human Services
12
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kmh Inl Abraham and Sara Foundation 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONG OHR CHAIM INC — $3,700,000 · OtherCONG OHR CHAIM INCIndividual grant recipient — $825,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCong Bobov 45 — $505,000 · OtherCong Bobov 45Individual grant recipient — $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · Other+21 more — $1,064,050 · Other+21 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $160,000 · HealthDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $108,000 · Human ServicesSHOE DISCOUNT CORP — $10,000 · Human ServicesKMH INL ABRAHAM AND SARA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $12,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Fund of Israel — $30,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc — $15,000 · ReligionKEREN OR INC — $5,000 · Education
Other$6,994,050Health$160,000Human Services$118,000Philanthropy$62,000International$31,000Religion$15,000Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $108,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKMH INL ABRAHAM AND SARA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOE DISCOUNT CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetKEREN OR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
  • Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC
  • Who funds KMH INL ABRAHAM AND SARA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel
  • Who funds American Friends of Chabad of Thailand Inc
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
  • Who funds SHOE DISCOUNT CORP
  • Who funds KEREN OR INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ojc FundNY26.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Ohel Harav Yehoshua Boruch Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sara Foundation Inc 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bnai Sara Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bnai Sara 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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