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Boris & Renee Joffe Foundation Inc at a glance

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Boris & Renee Joffe Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$7kPhilanthropy$4kHealth$1kFood & Nutrition$372Housing & Shelter$225International$200Human Services$175Civil Rights$150Other$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,235
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Holocaust Resource Center - Buffalo$6,235
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $175) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Dorot: $75 → 17%Buffalo City Mission: $100 → 13%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 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
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
2
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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3
Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center Inc

The mission of the daughters of sarah nursing center, inc. is to enhance the quality of life, assure the safety and dignity, and foster the independence of those we serve through residential, personal care, health and other quality…

Health
4
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
6
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
7
Massena Hospital Inc

Massena hospital's mission is to provide quality healthcare and the best patient experience.

Health
8
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
9
Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life

Hillel of Buffalo serves the jewish community at the NYS University at Buffalo and encourages the participation of jewish students and faculty from all area colleges and universities. It is Hillel of Buffalo's mission to foster jewish…

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10
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
11
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
12
Altruism for New York Foundationinc
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dorot 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

10 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. 10 of the 26 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Holocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc: $6,235 · OtherHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc+17 more: $2,047 · Other+17 moreFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPI…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $200 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 · InternationalCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $100 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $75 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150 · Crime & LegalFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $100 · Food & NutritionSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $75 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,282Philanthropy$4,000Health$200International$200Human Services$175Crime & Legal$150Food & Nutrition$100Recreation & Sports$75

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 budgetHolocaust Resource Center of BuffaloInc: $6,235 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $72 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boris & Renee Joffe Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boris & Renee Joffe Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 26 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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