· Private foundation
Joseph Handleman I Believe in You Trust F/K/A Joseph Handleman Trust 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of JOSEPH HANDLEMAN I BELIEVE IN YOU TRUST F/K/A JOSEPH HANDLEMAN TRUST FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $259k
- $250k+1 grant · $943k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $943,290 |
| Individual grant recipient | $209,320 |
| THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| WITNESS CHANGE | $25,000 |
| WITNESS CHANGE | $25,000 |
| BEIT EL BARAKA USA | $25,000 |
| SUPERYOU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| I AM WOMANKIND | $25,000 |
| REFUGEE GARDEN INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| COALITION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (CACF) | $20,000 |
| APEX FOR YOUTH | $20,000 |
| THE INDIGENEOUS PEOPLES RESILIENCE FUND | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NANCY CAROLINE HOSPICE OF THE UPPER GALILEE | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NANCY CAROLINE HOSPICE OF THE UPPER GALILEE | $20,000 |
| DEFENSE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONALCHILDREN CONNECT NOW (VIA MYRIAD USA) | $15,750 |
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 US giving — 68% of grant dollars ($3.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 32% that went abroad ($1.5M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 32% of all-years giving ($1.5M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- JGJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +50%
- AFAPEX FOR YOUTH INC5× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +221%
- FSFARM SANCTUARY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +18%
Funded once
BRILLIANT DETROITone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -19%- AMAMERICAN MIDEAST LEADERSHIP NETWORK INCone grant, 2017 · $65k
- YYOUTHCASTone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…
Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.
To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Us Wild Horse & Burro Association. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 72 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 JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE UPPER GALILEE ↗
- Who funds APEX FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WITNESS CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK KURDISH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BEIT EL BARAKA USA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Funny Farm Rescue a NJ Non Profit ↗
- Who funds US Wild Horse & Burro Association ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ALBANIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds The SuperYou FUNdation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE GARDEN INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds TIDES INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Joseph Handleman I Believe in You Trust F/K/A Joseph Handleman Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.
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