New Jersey · Private foundation
Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation
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.
- $430k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $185,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $245k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $521k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $314k | 76% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $435k | 84% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $172k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $186k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $218k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $161k | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshivat Sheerith Yosef | $378,900 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshivah of Flatbush | $305,750 | 6 | n/a |
| Silver Hill Hospital Inc | $76,170 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yirgun Yra | $56,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Magen David Yeshivah | $54,301 | 5 | n/a |
| Beit Yaacov Inc | $53,340 | 5 | n/a |
| Safe Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Navat Yisrael | $35,400 | 2 | 12% |
| Ahi Ezer Congregation | $31,551 | 5 | n/a |
| Lev Aharon Inc | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshivat Sheerith Yosef | $378,900 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshivah of Flatbush | $305,750 | 6 | n/a |
| Silver Hill Hospital Inc | $76,170 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yirgun Yra | $56,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Magen David Yeshivah | $54,301 | 5 | n/a |
| Beit Yaacov Inc | $53,340 | 5 | n/a |
| Safe Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Navat Yisrael | $35,400 | 2 | 12% |
| Ahi Ezer Congregation | $31,551 | 5 | n/a |
| Lev Aharon Inc | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sephardic Community Youth Center Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sephardic Synagogue | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sephardic Community Alliance | $11,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Simha Organization Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Magen David | $8,450 | 1 | n/a |
| The Sephardic Heritage Museum Inc | $5,800 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sephardic Food Fund Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yad David Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tomchei Tzedaka Corp | $4,770 | 2 | n/a |
| Chizuk Hatorah Inc | $3,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Synagogue of Deal | $3,365 | 2 | n/a |
| Yad Yosef | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hillel School | $2,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Misaskim Corp | $2,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Beit Edmond | $2,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Life Society Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Yad Yosef | $2,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Hatzedaka Inc | $2,374 | 2 | 0% |
| Rabbi Yehouda Ben Betera Congregation Inc | $2,320 | 3 | n/a |
| Khal Bnei Torah Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Keren Yom Tov Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mattan Basseter Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Ahavas Chaim Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids of Courage Inc | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Toirem | $1,072 | 1 | n/a |
| Heichal Hatorah | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beit Meir Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kollel of Jersey Shore Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ezras Yisroel | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mabas Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sephardic Institute Sephardic Institute for Advanced Learning | $800 | 1 | 0% |
| Lev Lalev Inc | $536 | 1 | 0% |
| Ateret Ahron | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Disaster Relief | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth Jacob Congregation Inc | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| New Seminary | $360 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Keren Hagemach | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Hanefesh Haelokit Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Bais Chaya Esther | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| Chesed Lavraham | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| The Edmond J Safra Synagogue Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Childrens Village of Jerusalem Inc | $52 | 1 | 0% |
| Kings Way | $18 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 130 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Jack D Cohen Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Mary & Abe Sutton Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation
- How much does Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation give?
- Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $429,896 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Religion (25%), Health (3%).
- Who are Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yeshivat Sheerith Yosef ($379k), Yeshivah of Flatbush ($306k), Silver Hill Hospital Inc ($76k).
- Does Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation based?
- Joseph & Renee Bijou Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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