How much does Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation give?

Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $48,670 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (32%), International (27%), Philanthropy (22%).

Who are Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc ($42k), American Friends of Unit 669 Inc ($31k), American Friends of Libi Inc ($12k).

Does Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum 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 Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ, Fjc.

Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation

Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation

Q: Where is Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation based?

Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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.

$49k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$118kInternational$99kPhilanthropy$81kHuman Services$49kEducation$7kHealth$4kYouth Development$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $33k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$45k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ	$15,446
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM	$7,076
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY - HILLEL	$6,500
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE	$6,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669	$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC	$2,500
THE GIVING BACK FUND	$1,800
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS	$1,000
USHER 1F COLLABORATIVE	$750
MOUNTAIN RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION	$515
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE	$300
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$236
PROJECT MORRY BENEFIT	$187
CHAIM MEDICAL RESOURCE	$180

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.6% 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$230k · 14 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$230k

$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+11%

Still filing today

50%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +677%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIT 669 INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +475%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC
2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +169%

Funded once

UJ
United Jewish Appeal
one grant, 2017 · $22k
JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NW NJ
one grant, 2022 · $16k
A
AFL
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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Physicians for Palestine

Health

Sherit Isroel

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

American Friends of Tzir Hemed

Philanthropy

Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International

American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

Yad Yosef Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund

To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…

Public Safety & Disaster

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Tal Hashamayim Foundation

Religion

Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc. 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

32 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. 32 of the 67 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

20/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$206,665International$71,767Philanthropy$37,435Human Services$33,190Education$6,380Religion$6,360Health$5,000

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

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY20.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth and Gina Mandelbaum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get 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 · 0–20%

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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