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Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation

The organization holds its contributions in an endowment fund.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$4.5MFood & Nutrition$890kEducation$728kArts & Culture$459kHuman Services$323kCommunity Improvement$160kAnimals$118kInternational$73kReligion$61kOther$1.0M
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $436k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $720k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$165,000
BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$100,079
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$100,000
METRO FOOD RESCUE$85,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$75,000
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$70,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY INC$65,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$60,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$45,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$40,000
MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE$35,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$30,000
ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION$30,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$22,500
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 12%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $20k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $18k → 12%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: $20k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 12%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 17%FUND FOR THE AGED INC: $60k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
TN
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 40 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
18

Total granted

$3.2M
$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +45%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +2%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CH
    Clover Hill Park Cemetery Perpetual Care Trust
    one grant, 2019 · $105k · revenue -25%
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE AGED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue -17%
  • WW
    WOMEN WHO WELD
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
2
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
5
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
Better Food Foundation Inc

To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing & Reside…Private Charitable Foundati…Youth Education and Develop…Diverse Advocacy and Suppor…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr13%69%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
6,002/44,651

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
47/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $3,500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $611,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROITPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $375,250 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+3 more — $60,000 · PhilanthropyWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $400,900 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVE…CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK — $180,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAA…Clover Hill Park Cemetery Perpetual Care Trust — $105,000 · OtherClover Hill Park …ORT AMERICA INC — $57,000 · OtherISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE — $50,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — $45,000 · OtherMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $83,260 · OtherMICHIGAN HUMANE S…JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $61,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Other+14 more — $263,500 · Other+14 moreFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $240,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HA…GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $240,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COM…Metro Food Rescue — $115,000 · Food & NutritionMetro Food R…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $90,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FO…CITY HARVEST INC — $70,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST…Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $65,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Fo…MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE — $45,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $25,000 · Food & NutritionEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $280,000 · EducationEASTERN M…FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC — $58,500 · EducationFRIENDS O…WOMEN WHO WELD — $55,000 · EducationWOMEN WHO…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $54,000 · EducationBRANDEIS …WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationWAYNE STA…Cornell University — $50,000 · EducationCornell U…CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION TRUST — $45,400 · EducationCONSTRUCT…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD…DIPLOMA EQUITY PROJECT — $35,000 · EducationI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County — $30,000 · Education+2 more — $25,000 · EducationTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $160,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $94,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC IMPACT — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $145,079 · Human ServicesFUND FOR THE AGED INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $42,500 · Human ServicesBridge House — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT LAND BANK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $125,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $25,000 · Community ImprovementAnchoRRa — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$4,546,250Other$1,295,660Food & Nutrition$890,000Education$727,900Arts & Culture$459,000Human Services$322,579Community Improvement$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $3,500,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $611,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $375,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $280,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $240,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $240,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $145,079 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDETROIT LAND BANK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $125,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetMetro Food Rescue — $115,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $94,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $83,260 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY INC — $65,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $61,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE AGED INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCI-TECH SCHOOLS INC — $58,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $57,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN WHO WELD — $55,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $54,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION TRUST — $45,400 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMAKE FOOD NOT WASTE — $45,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $42,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDIPLOMA EQUITY PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC IMPACT — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBridge House — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRose Community Foundation — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Madeleine & Mandell L…Community Foundation …The Skillman Foundati…Dte Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationThe Taking Flight Fou…Marjorie and Maxwell …Barron Family Foundat…Harold and Penny B Bl…The Eugene Applebaum …United Jewish Foundat…United Way for Southe…
Madeleine & Mandell L Berman FoundationMI49.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madeleine & Mandell L Berman Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Taking Flight Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Barron Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · United Way for Southeastern 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 Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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