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Jeff and Yolanda Berkowitz Family 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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$160kArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$45kInternational$35kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$3k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$120,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS$120,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Animal Haven: $5k → 17%FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS: $120k → 15%Midcoast Humane: $10k → 7%Friends of Miami Animals: $25k → 15%Voices For Children Foundation: $15k → 15%Best Buddies: $5k → 15%The Miami Foundation: $25k → 15%The Miami Foundation: $20k → 15%Friends of the Israel Defense Forces: $10k → 15%Miami Children's Museum: $75k → 15%Miami Children Museum: $15k → 15%Miami Children's Museum: $10k → 15%Project Medishare for Haiti: $20k → 15%Miami Heat Charitable Foundation: $10k → 15%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
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
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
4
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
5
National Marine Mammal Foundation Inc

The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…

Animals
6
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
7
Pelican Harbor Seabird Station Inc

Pelican harbor seabird station is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured or orphaned native wildlife.

Animals
8
The Marine Mammal Center

The marine mammal center advances global ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research, and education. the center's work is guided and inspired by a shared vision of a healthy ocean for marine…

Animals
9
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
10
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
11
Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap

Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.

Animals
12
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALS: $145,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MIAMI ANIMALSVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCMiami Heat Charitable Foundation: $10,000 · OtherMiami Heat Charitable Foundation+1 more: $2,500 · OtherMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FK…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOU…PROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC: $20,000 · InternationalPROJECT ME…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…Best Buddies International Inc: $5,000 · InternationalBest Buddi…MIDCOAST HUMANE: $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL HAVEN INC: $5,000 · Animals
Other$172,500Arts & Culture$100,000Philanthropy$45,000International$35,000Animals$15,000

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 budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILD OCEANS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jeff and Yolanda Berkowitz Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeff and Yolanda Berkowitz Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Project Medishare for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Jeff and Yolanda Berkowitz Family 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 11 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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