· Private foundation
Marvin Berlin Foundation
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Jewish Voice for Peace | $100 |
| Kollell Institute | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +50%- 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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marvin Berlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin Berlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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