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Braverman Family Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO | $3,600 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $2,600 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,800 |
| TEXAS HILLEL | $1,800 |
| AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| HOUSTON CONGREGATION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $1,500 |
| CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE & LEARNING | $1,135 |
| CONGREGATION RODFEI SHOLOM | $1,050 |
| SAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA | $1,000 |
| MAGIK THEATRE | $1,000 |
| ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY | $1,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
70 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MBMusical Bridges Around the World Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +74%
Washington and Lee University4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +69%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HCHOUSTON CONGREGATION FOR REFORMED JUDAISMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SFSTARR FAMILY JEWISH DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +19%
- HEHONDO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
89 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. 89 of the 160 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.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Musical Bridges Around the World Inc ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds STARR FAMILY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds RESTORE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Livestrong Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Gorman Foundation · Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · The Williamson 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 Braverman Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.