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Henry Bertha & Edward Rothman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry Bertha & Edward Rothman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$229kReligion$209kFood & Nutrition$37kArts & Culture$35kInternational$24kHuman Services$17kHealth$13kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$529k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$15,000
COLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLEL$12,500
KAV L'NOAR FOUNDATION$10,000
ZAKA INC$10,000
GEMILAS CHASADIM CHASDEI MOSHE$10,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$10,000
FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL$7,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM$5,000
NCSY$5,000
TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NY$3,600
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NY: $4k → 14%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $10k → 17%JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA: $4k → 9%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $13k → 15%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $6k → 17%POLITZ DAYSCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL: $13k → 12%KAV L'NOAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%ALEPH BETA: $8k → 6%TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NY: $4k → 14%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $10k → 17%JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA: $4k → 9%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $10k → 15%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $6k → 17%POLITZ DAYSCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL: $13k → 12%HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE: $8k → 6%TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NY: $4k → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $4k → 17%COLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $5k → 15%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $8k → 17%POLITZ DAYSCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL: $10k → 12%HOFFENBERGER INSTITUTE: $8k → 6%TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NY: $4k → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $4k → 17%CONGREGATION ORH HACHAIM: $10k → 20%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $8k → 17%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $5k → 6%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $6k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL: $5k → 7%NCSY: $5k → 17%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $6k → 17%RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $6k → 17%RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR: $10k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%GEMILAS CHASADIM CHASDEI MOSHE: $10k → 20%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%ZAKA INC: $10k → 20%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%ZAKA INC: $10k → 20%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $22k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18k → 17%TOKAH U'MESSORAH PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $13k → 20%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18k → 17%TORAH U'MESSORAH PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $13k → 20%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $18k → 17%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$480k · 18 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$480k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-1%

Still filing today

61%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $191k · revenue +39%
  • FM
    FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +58%
  • PD
    POLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TU
    TORAH U'MESSORAH PHILANTHROPIC FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • TU
    TOKAH U'MESSORAH PHILANTHROPIC FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • AF
    American Friends of Migdal OHR
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
9
Kollel Ameilim of Far Rockaway
Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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11
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Meir Panim; the most unlike its peers is Kav LNoar 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

15 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. 15 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $45,000 · OtherFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLSTALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK: $28,800 · OtherTALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORKCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $27,500 · OtherCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY KOLLELZAKA: $20,000 · OtherZAKAHOFFBERGER INSTITUTE: $17,500 · OtherHOFFBERGER INSTITUTEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $16,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIMTORAH U'MESSORAH PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $12,500 · OtherTOKAH U'MESSORAH PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $12,500 · OtherPROJECT EZRA: $10,000 · OtherGEMILOS CHASODIM CHASDEI MOSHE: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL: $9,700 · Other+10 more: $43,000 · Other+10 moreYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $190,600 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITYPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 · EducationPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERS…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $7,200 · Arts & CultureKav LNoar Foundation: $10,000 · InternationalEZER MIZION: $4,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRA L MARPEH: $3,000 · InternationalRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $15,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $9,000 · Food & NutritionMASBIA: $3,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$262,500Education$225,600Arts & Culture$27,200International$17,000Religion$15,000Philanthropy$15,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $190,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK: $28,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKav LNoar Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $7,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEZER MIZION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASBIA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRA L MARPEH: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds POLITZ DAY SCHOOL OF CHERRY HILL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TALMUDICAL INSTITUTE OF UPSTATE NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
  • Who funds RABBINICAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds Kav LNoar Foundation ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247 ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
  • Who funds MASBIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EZRA L MARPEH ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Henry Bertha & Edward Rothman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Bertha & Edward Rothman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 34 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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