· Private foundation
Marvin Berlin Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Torah Prep School | $50,000 |
| Shaare Zedek Hospital | $20,000 |
| Congregation Shomrey Emunah | $10,000 |
| Yeshiva Beth Yehudah | $10,000 |
| Chabad Lubavitch | $10,000 |
| Talmudical Institute of Upstate New | $2,000 |
| Kids Kicking Cancer | $1,500 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $600 |
| Congregation Mishkan Israel | $320 |
| TEP | $300 |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $250 |
| Yeshiva Darchai Torah | $200 |
| Bonei Olam | $180 |
| Women's Orthodox League | $100 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $100 |
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 (FY23–23, $180) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +154% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +34%- TJTHE JEWISH DENTAL CLINIC2× · 2020–2021 · $250 · revenue +154%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $135 · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SZShare Zedek Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Bonei Olam provides financial assistance,guidance & referrals for assisted reproductive technology,including consultations, work up, medications, high risk pregnancy,Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,pre & post…
Belev echad is an international nonprofit dedicated to restoring the wounded men and women of the idf back to life through physical, medical, legal, emotional, and financial support. our extensive therapies and programs help the soldiers…
Bonei Olam provides financial assistance,guidance & referrals for assisted reproductive technology,including consultations, work up, medications, high risk pregnancy,Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,pre & post…
Bonei Olam provides financial assistance,guidance & referrals for assisted reproductive technology,including consultations, work up, medications, high risk pregnancy,Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,pre & post…
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):
Bonei Olam provides financial assistance,guidance & referrals for assisted reproductive technology,including consultations, work up, medications, high risk pregnancy,Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,pre & post…
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
Bonei Olam provides financial assistance,guidance & referrals for assisted reproductive technology,including consultations, work up, medications, high risk pregnancy,Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,pre & post…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Paralyzed Veterans of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 44 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.
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: Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Borsand Family Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · The Meer Family Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · Jewish Federation of Detroit · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Marvin Berlin 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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