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Elizabeth & Steven Betesh Foundation at a glance

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Elizabeth & Steven Betesh 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$59kReligion$45kFood & Nutrition$28kHealth$6kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$4kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$267k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINGS HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION$3,200
Individual grant recipient$2,600
YAD YOSEF$2,500
02The need
03

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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $3k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 11 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
22

Total granted

$110k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+33%

Still filing today

27%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’24
EducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +65%
  • IH
    ILAN HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +66%
  • SF
    SAFE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • CO
    CONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • CJ
    Chabad Jewish Student Center DC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SR
    SEPHARDIC RABBINICAL COLLEGE
    one 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.

04Its 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
Magen Abraham Inc
Education
2
Chaim Maleh Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
4
Sehgal Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Mashiach Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Ahavas Avraham Foundation
Human Services
8
The Haron Dahan Foundation Inc
—
9
Marie and Naim Farah Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Ahavas Tzedakah Foundation Trust
Philanthropy
11
Zichron Hamaor Foundation Trust
Philanthropy
12
Maon Noam Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sbh Community Service Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ezra Cornman Bar Mitzvah Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 36 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEFESH ACADEMY: $30,000 · OtherNEFESH ACADEMYCONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK: $21,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OHEL YISHAKIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChabad Jewish Student Center DC: $10,000 · OtherChabad Jewish Student Center DCIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEPHARDIC RABBINICAL COLLEGE: $5,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+20 more: $33,703 · Other+20 moreTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $28,400 · Food & NutritionTHE SEPHARDIC FO…ILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $12,200 · EducationILAN HIGH …STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN GA…+1 more: $252 · EducationDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentKINGS HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION: $3,200 · EnvironmentSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $2,600 · Human ServicesMAGEN AVRAHAM FUND: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$134,403Food & Nutrition$28,400Education$17,452Youth Development$5,000Environment$3,200Human Services$2,600Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $28,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $12,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION: $3,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAGEN AVRAHAM FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEZRA CORNMAN BAR MITZVAH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNAOMI'S LEGACY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMABAS FUND INC: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLENHURST FIRE DEPARTMENT NO 1: $250 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KINGS HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGEN AVRAHAM FUND ↗
  • Who funds EZRA CORNMAN BAR MITZVAH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAOMI'S LEGACY INC ↗
  • Who funds MABAS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENHURST FIRE DEPARTMENT NO 1 ↗

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.

Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Howard Hoffman & …Jewish Communal FundJack D Cohen Foundati…Isaac & Marjorie Gind…The Amin and Lillian …The Jimmy and Berta K…Sammy R & Barbara Sut…Ralph and Sondra Sutt…Jack Chehebar Foundat…Reuben J Chehebar Cha…Joseph Jack Sitt 1986…
Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack D Cohen Foundation Inc · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Sammy R & Barbara Sutton Foundation · Ralph and Sondra Sutton Foundation · Jack Chehebar Foundation · Reuben J Chehebar Charitable Trust Reuben J Chehebar Trustee · Joseph Jack Sitt 1986 - Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elizabeth & Steven Betesh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth & Steven Betesh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Ilan High School: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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, FY20–24
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.
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Find your warmest path to Elizabeth & Steven Betesh Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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