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David a Beckerman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $9,910 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
| FEEDING FAMILIES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NAISMITH BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME | $2,500 |
| JONES FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| HEARTS IN HARMONY FOUNDATION - SHAKE IT FOR SHEA | $1,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA CRIME COMMISSION | $1,000 |
| BOCA RIO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PINK AID | $1,000 |
| WICK THREATER & COSTUME MUSUEM | $1,000 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $360 |
| AB1 ELITE BASKETBALL CAMP | $250 |
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 (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%- PAPINK AID INC4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +131%
- BRBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- AADLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- JOJFS OF GREATER NEW HAVENone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ABA Broken Umbrella Theatre Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +68%
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.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Long wharf theatre is dedicated to producing boundary-breaking theatre with and for its many, kaleidoscopic communities. our vision is theatre for everyone.
Jewish federation of greater hartford is the community leader and agent of change. our mission is to support, coordinate and develop priority programs and services that welcome all jewish families; bring unique jewish education and…
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
To work collaboratively with the New Haven Free Public Library to raise funds to support major initiatives and innovative projects that enhance the services of the Library to the residents of New Haven.
Receive and administer gifts, grants and contributions. assist local & state government leaders in community development programs.
The purposes of the corporation are to provide resources to the new haven jewish community council housing corporation (dba the towers at tower lane and referred to in these bylaws as "the towers") in support of the towers' mission as set…
The mission of the community foundation is to create positive and sustainable change in greater new haven by increasing the amount and enhancing the impact of community philathropy.
The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford unlocks the transformative power of individuals and collective philanthropy to address problems, strengthen community organizations,and provide permanent support for the Jewish Community…
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is D E S T I N E D to Succeed Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 57 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 FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds PINK AID INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds D E S T I N E D TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH 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: Eder Family Foundation Inc · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · MFUND Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Yale University · The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation · The Netter Foundation Inc · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc
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 David a Beckerman 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- A Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% 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.
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