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Mal Bdl Charitable Foundation

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$1.1MReligion$879kRecreation & Sports$633kPhilanthropy$532kInternational$505kCivil Rights$466kHuman Services$142kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $545k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$26,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL INC$250,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$200,000
PROJECT TORAH AND BIBLE SCHOLARSHIP INC$80,000
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON FRIENDS AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$59,400
EXTEND$55,250
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC$50,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$50,000
V-DAY$50,000
TIKKUN OLAM PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATED$45,000
BRIDGE INSTITUTE INC$45,000
IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND$40,000
ALBI FUND INSTITUTE & LAB$30,000
TELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SKI PROGRAM$26,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC$25,000
SHEFA SCHOOL$25,000
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 (FY19–25, $171k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $1k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%CHALLANGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $10k → 17%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $10k → 17%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $10k → 17%ONEG SHABBAT OF THE WEST SIDE: $2k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $25k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $18k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM EXECUTIVE V P FOR FINANCE: $5k → 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 31 repeat orgs$806k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
30

Total granted

$4.8M
$623k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+9%

Still filing today

90%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SS
    SHEFA SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $956k · revenue +194%
  • AT
    ACADEMIC TORAH INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $560k · revenue +61% · 30% of their budget
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $520k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $210k · revenue 0%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • New Urban Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +28%

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 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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2
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
3
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
4
Jumpstart Labs Inc Dba Jewish Jumpstart Jslabs

To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…

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5
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
6
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
7
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
9
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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10
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
11
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
12
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wolf Pack Support Services. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…
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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,692

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

61 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. 61 of the 71 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHEFA SCHOOL — $956,100 · EducationSHEFA SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERSITY — $287,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $100,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE T…+5 more — $71,500 · EducationFILM INDEPENDENT — $500,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTEXTEND — $240,750 · Arts & CultureEXTENDASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC — $210,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTIO…Tikkun Olam Productions Inc — $87,000 · Arts & CultureTikkun Olam Productions …WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNew Urban Arts — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE INSTITUTE — $45,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $81,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreAchilles International Inc — $484,250 · OtherAchilles Internat…TELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM — $106,500 · OtherTELLURIDE ADAPTIV…NON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL — $77,720 · OtherNON-VIOLENCE INTE…ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM — $35,000 · OtherV-Day — $50,000 · OtherV-Day+17 more — $159,905 · Other+17 moreACADEMIC TORAH INSTITUTE INC — $560,000 · ReligionACADEMIC TORAH …J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $220,000 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCAT…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $216,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FU…UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON FRIENDS & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $118,800 · InternationalUNIVERSITY CO…IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 · InternationalIF NOT NOW ED…HIAS INC — $50,000 · InternationalHIAS INCFORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION — $50,000 · InternationalFORWARD LEAP …A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $50,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOIC…FRIENDS OF ROOTS — $40,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF RO…Peace Development Fund — $25,000 · International+7 more — $99,550 · International+7 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $520,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…ALBI FUND INSTITUTE AND LAB — $30,000 · PhilanthropyALBI FUND …+2 more — $11,531 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $93,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONPOINT NY INC — $7,500 · Human Services+4 more — $8,300 · Human Services
Education$1,415,100Arts & Culture$1,263,750Other$913,375Religion$780,000International$709,350Philanthropy$561,531Human Services$188,800

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 budgetSHEFA SCHOOL — $956,100 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetACADEMIC TORAH INSTITUTE INC — $560,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $520,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAchilles International Inc — $484,250 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $287,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEXTEND — $240,750 over 6y, 20% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $220,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $216,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC — $210,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON FRIENDS & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $118,800 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM — $106,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $93,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTikkun Olam Productions Inc — $87,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL — $77,720 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetIF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHIAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetV-Day — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetNew Urban Arts — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOTS — $40,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREELABILITIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $26,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetT'RUAH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetB'TSELEM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New School — $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Echo Litigation Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $8,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONPOINT NY INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $7,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundImpactassetsincTopol Family Foundati…New Israel FundProteus Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Marietta and Andrew R…Tides FoundationFoundation to Promote…Foundation for Middle…The Nathan Cummings F…Fjc
Jewish Communal FundNY31× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Impactassetsinc · Topol Family Foundation Inc · New Israel Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Marietta and Andrew Romay Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Foundation for Middle East Peace · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Fjc

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 Mal Bdl Charitable 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 · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 71 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines