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Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD

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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
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 2025.

Health$237kReligion$45kHuman Services$38kInternational$36kFood & Nutrition$29kRecreation & Sports$9kAnimals$2kCrime & Legal$2k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mou$15,000
Temple Emanuel$4,000
Jewish Family Service$4,000
International Rescue Committee$4,000
Friends of Man$4,000
National Jewish Health$4,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$3,000
Denver Hospice$2,000
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy$1,000
Energy Outreach Colorado$1,000
Humane Colorado$1,000
Jewish Colorado$1,000
Jewish Fertility Foundation$1,000
Arc of Prince George's County$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Denver Hospice: $3k → 12%Denver Hospice: $3k → 12%Denver Hospice: $3k → 12%Denver Hospice: $3k → 12%Denver Hospice: $2k → 12%Denver Hospice: $2k → 12%Denver Hospice: $2k → 12%Denver Hospice: $1k → 12%Denver Hospice: $1k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%Jewish Family Service: $4k → 12%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$387k · 14 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$387k
$4k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsCivil 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

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +38%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +26%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
9
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
10
Pathways Hospice

Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.

Human Services
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $127,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $36,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MANNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $35,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHJEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY S…HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF METR…Temple Emanuel: $37,500 · OtherTemple EmanuelTHE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC: $9,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF PRINC…Individual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant…The Gathering Place: $2,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $2,000 · OtherDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $2,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $32,000 · InternationalInternati…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $29,000 · Food & NutritionENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISHColorado: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Health$208,000Human Services$56,000Other$56,500International$32,000Food & Nutrition$29,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Philanthropy$7,000

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 budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $127,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $36,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $29,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $2,000 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗

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.

Rose Community FoundationCO15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Arc of Prince George's County Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–40%
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 16 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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