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Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$136kPhilanthropy$112kEducation$20kInternational$11kHealth$5kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$36
Median grant
11
States reached
$454k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH$5,000
AMIT$460
Individual grant recipient$360
NATL COMM FOR JEWISH EDUCATION$280
YOUNG ISRAEL OF FLATBUSH$250
REGENCY CONG TORAH CENTER$180
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MERCAZ HARAV$180
ESTHER BEN DAVID MEM FUND$180
DARCHEI MENACHEM$180
MIGDAL OHR$136
CHESED L AVRAHAM$100
Individual grant recipient$100
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$100
HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$100
BONEI OLAM$100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $640 → 11%SHALVA: $136 → 14%UNITED CHARITY INST OF JERUSALEM: $180 → 14%CHAI 4 EVER: $180 → 11%NECHAMAS COMFORT: $240 → 7%BIKUR CHOLIM LAKEWOOD: $18 → 11%AHAVAS TZEDOKOS: $18 → 11%UNITED CHARITY INST OF JERUSALEM: $18 → 14%UNITED CHARITY INST OF JERUSALEM: $18 → 14%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $100 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $100 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $100 → 6%ACHIEZER: $72 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $72 → 6%ACHIEZER: $72 → 6%DOROT: $398 → 17%KIMPATORIN AID: $126 → 20%MISASKIM: $720 → 20%DOROT: $86 → 17%KIMPATORIN AID: $72 → 20%DOROT: $36 → 17%KIMPATORIN AID: $72 → 20%MISASKIM: $180 → 20%KEREN ANIYEM: $54 → 20%KEREN ANIYEM: $36 → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $36 → 20%KEREN ANIYEM: $18 → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
KS
DC
GA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$237k · 191 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

191 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

191
129

Total granted

$237k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

30%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BB
    BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • YN
    YESHIVAT NOAM
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +15%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • YK
    YESHIVA KETANA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY WOMEN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • UO
    UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONG
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
7
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
10
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
11
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
12
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Tzedakah Vchesed 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

96 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. 96 of the 343 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/96
Grantees still filing
54/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAR HAMOR: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAR HAMORAMIT: $28,540 · OtherAMITYESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH: $21,050 · OtherYESHIVA DARCHEI TORAHREGENCY CONG TORAH CENTER: $10,470 · OtherYESHIVA KETANA: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $10,000 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $10,000 · Other+141 more: $113,058 · Other+141 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC: $4,000 · EducationBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $3,100 · EducationYESHIVAT NOAM: $3,000 · EducationThe Frisch School: $1,000 · EducationEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $720 · EducationORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $540 · Education+4 more: $1,134 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $2,500 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,120 · InternationalEZER MIZION: $1,084 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $940 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $694 · InternationalKULANU INC: $688 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $668 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $600 · International+5 more: $1,212 · InternationalJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $2,000 · ReligionYESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC: $2,000 · ReligionYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $1,840 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $1,800 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INC: $1,260 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Mercaz Harav Kook: $760 · Religion+2 more: $406 · ReligionBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,458 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,260 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $980 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC: $684 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SDEROT: $250 · PhilanthropyMISASKIM CORP: $900 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $640 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $520 · Human ServicesDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $372 · Human ServicesKIMPATORIN AID INC: $270 · Human ServicesNECHAMACOMFORT INC: $240 · Human ServicesUnited Charity of Jerusalem: $216 · Human ServicesCHAI 4EVER INC: $180 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $860 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $480 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $452 · HealthBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $450 · HealthCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $252 · HealthUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $200 · HealthDaughters of Israel Inc: $180 · Health
Other$243,118Education$13,494International$10,506Religion$10,066Philanthropy$5,632Human Services$3,338Health$2,874

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT NOAM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,458 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA: $2,034 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKAYAMA INC: $1,860 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $1,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $1,164 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $1,120 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEZER MIZION: $1,084 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frisch School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $970 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC: $940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $858 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Mercaz Harav Kook: $760 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $694 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKULANU INC: $688 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $684 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $668 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $640 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Beach Mikveh Society Inc: $610 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIMAD ALON MOREH INC: $540 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $520 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROFEH INC: $508 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $496 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMet Council Inc: $464 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $452 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEWOOD CHEDER SCHOOL INC: $442 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $372 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIMPATORIN AID INC: $270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $262 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESED OF LAKEWOOD INC: $252 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC ↗
  • Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MASBIA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
  • Who funds KAYAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
  • Who funds ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA DERECH CHAIM ↗

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.

The Ojc FundMoses and Miriam Voge…Jewish Communal FundZichron Chaim Charity…The Nathan and Marily…The Zev and Susan Mun…The Sorala FoundationHouse of Gross Founda…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Fishoff Family Fo…The Jmg FoundationAllen I Gross Charita…
The Ojc FundNY57.9× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · House of Gross Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation

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 Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 343 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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