· Private foundation
Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $51,500 |
| EDUCATE 2 ENVISION INTERNATIONAL | $25,500 |
| SAVE A CHILDS HEART USA | $20,000 |
| STONY BROOK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HORSES HEALING HEARTS | $12,250 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN NJ EAST | $12,000 |
| JAFCO | $10,000 |
| TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY MI CHAPTER | $8,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| ORT AMERICA | $2,000 |
| MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER | $1,500 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $1,250 |
| LANSING PROMISE | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 8 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- LFLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +10%
- SBSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +224%
- EIEducate2Envision International Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- SASAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue 0%
- TATSC ALLIANCE ENDOWMENT FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
- TSTUBERIS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Small Talk Children's Advocacy Center. 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 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 117 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 LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORSES HEALING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Educate2Envision International Inc ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP FOR KIDS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN NJ EAST INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN SOLDIER OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds TSC ALLIANCE ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lansing Promise ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: Desk Drawer Fund · Capital Region Community Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Cinnaire Corporation · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · McLaren Greater Lansing · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan
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 Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation 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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