· Private foundation
Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+2 grants · $773k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $505,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT | $268,413 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN MIRACLE LEAGUE | $125,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $10,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF WESTERN MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $8,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GR | $6,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & VISION IMPAIRED | $4,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $4,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · $535k · revenue +126%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +38%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC7× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CACONGREGATION AHAVAS ISRAELone grant, 2019 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $800
- CGC-SNIP GRAND RAPIDSone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
To care for the frail, elderly and infirmed according to jewish traditions.
Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
Creating healthy communities - together
Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LAHEY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN MIRACLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FLINT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Korff Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation 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.
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic 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.