Skip to content
Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Israel Henry Beren Charitable 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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.6MPhilanthropy$3.6MReligion$3.4MHealth$2.0MInternational$1.3MCivil Rights$500kYouth Development$325kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $430k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,000,000
OHR TORAH STONE$500,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK MED CENR IN JERUSALEM$500,000
COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION$500,000
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL$250,000
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$180,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$125,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL$18,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER: $18k → 9%CHABAD OF CLINTON: $540 → 16%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK MED CENR IN JERUSALEM: $1.0M → 17%FEDERATION FO JEWISH COMMUNITIES: $32k → 20%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL: $250k → 28%JEWISH YOUTH INC: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL: $36k → 19%COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%BEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $500k → 16%ROSE HILL CEMETERY: $250 → 10%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $180k → 11%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK MED CENR IN JERUSALEM: $500k → 17%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL: $250k → 28%JEWISH COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL: $18k → 19%BEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $500k → 16%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $150k → 11%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK MED CENR IN JERUSALEM: $500k → 17%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL: $125k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL: $18k → 19%BEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $500k → 16%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 11%THE TIKVAH FUND: $650k → 17%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 28%UNIVERSITY FO FLORIDA HILLEL: $18k → 19%BEREN SEA FOUNATION: $500k → 16%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL: $100k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL: $18k → 19%FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS: $45k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $45k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP: $100k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP: $100k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP: $100k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $1.0M → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $125k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $125k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $810k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $500k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $250k → 17%OHR TORAH STONE: $250k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 8 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$12M
$947k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • BS
    BEREN SEA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +309%
  • OT
    Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +74%
  • YC
    YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST)
    5× · 2020–2024 · $825k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TIKVAH FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $650k · revenue +199%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $145k · revenue +34%
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +39%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
—
2
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
—
3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
Bais Yisrael Foundation
—
5
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
8
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
9
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Jewish Life Foundation
—
11
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
12
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beren Sea Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyBEREN SEA FOUNDATIONPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AM…BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $380,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF …+2 more: $190,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4,600,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM COLLEGE O…+9 more: $197,030 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $2,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMI…Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $1,810,000 · ReligionOhr Torah Sto…YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST): $825,000 · EducationYESHIVAT C…THE TIKVAH FUND: $650,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH…COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $300,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$4,820,000Other$4,797,030International$2,000,000Religion$1,810,000Education$1,475,000Civil Rights$500,000Youth Development$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $2,000,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $1,810,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST): $825,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $650,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $380,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $145,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Israel Henry Beren Charitable Foundation Inc 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 22 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Israel Henry Beren’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home