· Private foundation
Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $31k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY | $8,600 |
| AMIT | $5,000 |
| KEMP MILL SYNAGOGUE | $3,800 |
| SULAM | $2,680 |
| CHAI LIFELINE | $1,800 |
| BONEI OLAM | $1,360 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL SHOMREI EMUNAH | $1,200 |
| MIKVAH EMUNAH SOCIETY | $1,110 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $850 |
| YAD YEHUDAH OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $750 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $720 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $500 |
| EZER MITZION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $350 |
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 (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MJMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY3× · 2018–2020 · $18k · revenue +67%
- BABEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +7%
- SISulam Inc3× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MSMORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOODgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +28%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +65%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLL EL TORAS ZERAIM JERUSALEM INCone grant, 2018 · $360 · revenue -42%
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.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
Religious School
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 58 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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD ↗
- Who funds Sulam Inc ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds DAILY GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MORIAH SCHOOL OF ENGLEWOOD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL INC ↗
- Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLL EL TORAS ZERAIM JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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: The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Berman Charitable Trust · Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation · Edith & Michael Gelfand Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Colburn Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvyn and Barbara Ciment Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
- Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy: 2% of income from government
- The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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