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Magbit Foundation

The specific purpose of the foundation is to provide aid to and to support jewish causes and charities.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$878kEducation$751kHuman Services$35kPhilanthropy$24kHealth$23kEmployment$10k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $70,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,759,731 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,689,231 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
$13,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Massachusetts Institute of Te$15,000
UC Regents$15,000
Creighton University$13,000
Stanford University$10,000
Chamberlain University$10,000
University of Colorado$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Friends of Or Nation: $50k → 17%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $860k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Israel$860k · 100% · 16 grants

Stated purpose: CHARITY · SCHOLARSHIP · SCHOOLARSHIP

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$719k · 10 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$719k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+40%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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 MAAGALIM INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $51k · revenue +556%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $35k · revenue +18%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends Of Or National Missions
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • WU
    WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • CD
    Career Development Institute
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Sackler School of Medicine. 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $771,930 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+1 more: $23,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC: $220,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INCSackler School of Medicine: $216,500 · OtherSackler School of MedicineREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA+9 more: $108,500 · Other+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $32,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,500 · EducationTHE TRUST…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Creighton University: $21,000 · EducationCreighton…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $15,000 · EducationMassachus…CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE: $10,000 · EducationCALIFORNI…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE BOARD…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationAmerican Friends Of Or National Missions: $50,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC: $51,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $5,124 · International
Philanthropy$795,430Other$645,500Education$138,500Human Services$85,000International$56,124

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $771,930 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC: $220,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSackler School of Medicine: $216,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAAGALIM INC: $51,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetAmerican Friends Of Or National Missions: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $5,124 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Magbit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Magbit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Magbit Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Magbit 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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