· Private foundation
Bsf 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Bsf Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Ojc Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Bsf Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $579k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k6 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $144,850 |
| KEREN ACHEINU BNEI YISROEL INC | $124,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120,900 |
| CONG MEOR HATFILAH | $45,300 |
| HEICHAL HATLMUD | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| BLEV ECHOD | $16,500 |
| CONGREGATION TALMUD TORAH | $16,000 |
| THE OJC FUND | $10,000 |
| YESHIVAS NOVOMINSK | $10,000 |
| CONG MEADOW ESTATES | $10,000 |
| RCCS | $9,000 |
| KOLEL MANEH SIMCHA | $9,000 |
| CONG SHARREI CHESED | $5,000 |
| IYUN HAPARSHA INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2017–2022 · $234k
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2017–2022 · $197k
- CTCONGREGATION TALMUD TORAH CORPORATION4× · 2019–2022 · $100k
Funded once
- YOYESHIVA OHR TORAHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- JJINSPIREone grant, 2019 · $19k
- CCGBPone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
6 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. 6 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Lcpv Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Strasbourg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · M & M Fischer Foundation · Jacob and Malka Fischer Foundation · The J W Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bsf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bsf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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