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Keren Bertha Chernofsky Inc at a glance

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Keren Bertha Chernofsky Inc

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$48kInternational$4kYouth Development$2kHealth$600Education$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rebbe Talmid Inc$9,000
American Friends of Yeshivat HaKotel$5,000
Friends of Beis Yechiel$1,800
American Friends of P'TaCH$250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Rabbinical Seminary of America: $500 → 13%Am Friends of Yeshiva Tiferet: $250 → 14%The Central Fund of Israel: $500 → 17%Jerusalem Comm Health Ctr: $600 → 15%Friends of Bais Shlomo: $500 → 12%Friends of Beis Yechiel: $2k → 14%Rebbe Talmid Inc: $9k → 11%American Friends of Yeshivat HaKotel: $5k → 13%The Central Fund of Israel: $500 → 17%Am Friends of Bais Shlomo: $500 → 12%Friends of Beis Yechiel: $2k → 14%Rebbe Talmid Inc: $8k → 11%Am Friends of Yeshivat HaKotel: $4k → 13%HaMechon HaGovoah L'Torah: $4k → 17%Am Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $1k → 20%Friends of Beit Yeshiva: $1k → 14%Rebbe Talmid Inc: $4k → 11%Am Friends of Yeshivat HaKotel: $1k → 13%HaMechon HaGovoah L'Torah: $4k → 17%Am Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $500 → 20%Am Friends Kolel Beis Yechiel: $800 → 14%Cong Zichron Refoel: $1k → 11%Bayswater Neighbors Fund: $500 → 13%Hamechoasn Hagavoah L'torah: $3k → 17%Am Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $500 → 20%Friends of Beis Yechiel: $800 → 14%Keren Y&Y: $450 → 11%Am Friends of Yesh Birchar Moshe: $2k → 13%HaMechon HaGovoah L'Torah: $1k → 17%Am Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $500 → 20%Am Friends of Beis Yechiel: $700 → 14%Keren Y&Y: $400 → 11%Emunah- Emunah Rachel: $3k → 17%Am Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $500 → 20%Am Friends Kolel Beis Yechiel: $600 → 14%Keren Y & Y: $360 → 11%PEF Israel Endowment Fund: $1k → 17%Am Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $500 → 20%Friends of Beis Yechiel: $500 → 14%Keren Y&Y: $360 → 11%PEF Israel Endowment Fund: $1k → 17%PEF Israel Endowment Fund: $500 → 17%Congregation Chomat Jerusalem: $750 → 20%Yeshivah Meor Hatorah: $2k → 20%Yeshivah Meor Hatorah: $2k → 20%Yeshivah Meor Hatorah: $1k → 20%Yeshivah Meor Hatorah: $500 → 20%Yeshivah Meor Hatorah: $300 → 20%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$54k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+51%

Still filing today

45%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalEducationOther
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

  • RT
    REBBE TALMID INC KLEIN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL BAIS YECHIEL ESFORMES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +66%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • AF
    Am Friends of Yesh Birchar Moshe
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
2
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
3
American Friends of Keshet Yehuda Nfp

religious and educational program for post high school youth

Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
5
Friends of Yeshiva Tehilas Shlomo Inc

Provide support to further jewish education

Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Kol Yehuda Inc

Jewish Religious charitable Educational and scientific studies

Religion
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy
9
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
10
Friends of Meor Israel

Education and religious activities and research

Education
11
American Friends of Kehillas Shivtei Yeshurun Inc

Assistance to establish a community in ramat beit shemesh, israel, founded upon torah principles, prayer, justice, charity and kindness to all peoples. to encourage and promote jewish religious activities.

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshivas Temimei Darech

To assist with providing Jewish education through support of Orthodox schools offering Torah studies.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Kollel Bais Yechiel Esformes; the most unlike its peers is Rebbe Talmid Inc Klein. 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 28 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAm Friends of Yeshivat HaKotel: $5,200 · OtherAm Friends of Yeshivat HaKotelFriends of Beis Yechiel: $5,100 · OtherFriends of Beis YechielAmerican Friends of Yeshivat HaKotel: $5,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Yeshivat HaKotelAm Friends Hachovesh Har Nof Inc: $3,500 · OtherAm Friends Hachovesh Har Nof IncIndividual grant recipient: $2,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKeren Y&Y: $1,570 · Other+10 more: $6,650 · Other+10 moreREBBE TALMID INC KLEIN: $20,000 · ReligionREBBE TALMID INC KLEINFRIENDS OF BAIS SHLOMO INC: $1,000 · ReligionCONGREGATION CHOMAT JERUSALEM INC: $750 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL BAIS YECHIEL ESFORMES: $1,900 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC: $370 · InternationalPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,530 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERET: $250 · EducationKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $180 · Education
Other$46,420Religion$21,750International$3,270Philanthropy$2,530Education$430

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREBBE TALMID INC KLEIN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL BAIS YECHIEL ESFORMES: $1,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAIS SHLOMO INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC: $370 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERET: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL: $180 over 1y, 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 REBBE TALMID INC KLEIN ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLLEL BAIS YECHIEL ESFORMES ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BAIS SHLOMO INC ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION CHOMAT JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERET ↗
  • Who funds KEREN YEHOSHUA V'YISROEL ↗

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.

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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 Keren Bertha Chernofsky Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keren Bertha Chernofsky Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 28 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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