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Mandelbaum Barrett Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$56kYouth Development$49kHuman Services$44kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$16kHousing & Shelter$11kEnvironment$7kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METROPOLITAN YMCA OF THE ORANGES$7,500
LIFETOWN$7,000
FRESH AIR FUND$6,500
JEWISH SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$3,500
NORTH JERSEY CHILDREN'S CHARITABLE TRUST$3,000
EMPLOYMENT HORIZONS$2,500
COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY - NEWARK$2,500
THE VALERIE FUND$1,500
HOMELESS SOLUTIONS$1,000
MOMS HELPING MOMS$1,000
ZUFALL HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LIVINGSTON PHILANTHROPIES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOMS HELPING MOMS: $1k → 5%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $600 → 7%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $3k → 15%MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION: $600 → 5%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY - NEWARK: $3k → 16%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $11k → 16%LIFETOWN: $7k → 16%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $7k → 16%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $7k → 16%JEWISH SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $5k → 16%JEWISH SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $5k → 16%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 17 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
28

Total granted

$160k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • MY
    Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +129%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +76%
  • PC
    PILLAR CARE CONTINUUM
    3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHABAD CENTER OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - LIFETOWN
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • JC
    JERSEY CARES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +15%
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
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey Inc

Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…

Crime & Legal
2
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.

Health
3
Nourishnj Inc

Nourish.nj provides immediate access to healthy food as the first step toward a stable future. as a center of support, we connect our neighbors to essential community resources and provide direct services to address the root causes of…

Food & Nutrition
4
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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5
Legal Services of New Jersey Inc

To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.

Crime & Legal
6
Care Plus Nj Inc

This agency is dedicated to excellence in mental healthcare and has commitment to life- long support needed by individuals and their families to ensure that they achieve their full potential to improve the quality of their lives.

Health
7
Jewish Home At Home Inc

Providing charitable services to the elderly or infirm to assist them to continue to reside in their home environment.

Human Services
8
North Jersey Friendship House Inc

To build the skills of individuals with varying abilities and developmental needs, by providing clinical treatment, community integration, vocational training and work opportunities in order to achieve and maintain productive lives.

—
9
Central Jersey Legal Services Inc

Provides free legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in mercer county, middlesex county, and union county, new jersey

Crime & Legal
10
Jewish Home and Rehabilitation Center

To obtain funds and property by gift and apply the income and principal thereof, either directly or through contributions to jewish home and rehabilitation center, home at rockleigh, jewish home assisted living, and the jewish home family,…

Health
11
Newark Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of newark community health centers is to provide affordable, high quality, and accessible healthcare to the communities that we serve. as one of the largest providers of comprehensive primary care services for uninsured and…

Health
12
Advocates for Children of New Jersey

To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Isaiah House Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: $36,500 · OtherMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges IncCHABAD CENTER OF NORTHWEST NJ: $16,250 · OtherCHABAD CENTER OF NORTHWEST NJTHE VALERIE FUND: $10,000 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUNDMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $8,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERCHABAD CENTER OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY INC: $7,250 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE - LIFETOWN: $7,000 · OtherTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $6,500 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND: $6,500 · OtherJERSEY CARES INC: $5,000 · OtherMORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 · Other+27 more: $29,894 · Other+27 moreTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INCJEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEV…Life Town Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesLife Town IncKessler Foundation Inc: $3,750 · Human ServicesKessler Foundation IncBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $3,040 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK IN…MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $600 · Human ServicesPILLAR CARE CONTINUUM: $10,500 · HealthMILLBURN SHORT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $1,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC: $1,000 · HealthZUFALL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthLIVINGSTON PHILANTHROPIES INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTIKVA CORP: $3,500 · EducationNJ LEEP Inc: $2,000 · EducationTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC: $4,500 · Employment
Other$138,394Human Services$54,490Health$13,500Arts & Culture$11,000Education$5,500Youth Development$5,000Employment$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLIVINGSTON PHILANTHROPIES INC: $11,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPILLAR CARE CONTINUUM: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED OF METROWEST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLife Town Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJERSEY CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $3,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNJ LEEP Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISAIAH HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENT CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetESSEX COUNTY LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILLBURN SHORT HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZUFALL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOTTESMAN RTW ACADEMY: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $250 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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Community Foundation …Investors Foundation …The Healthcare Founda…Columbia Bank Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Pseg Foundation IncVerizon FoundationBristol-Myers Squibb …The Pfizer Foundation…The Prudential Founda…The Provident Bank Fo…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Pseg Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Prudential Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation

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 Mandelbaum Barrett Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mandelbaum Barrett Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Employment Horizons Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Partners for Women and Justice Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Isaiah House Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
  • Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Gottesman Rtw Academy: 2% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pillar Care Continuum: 1% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Mandelbaum Barrett Charitable Foundation Inc 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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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