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Michael Sol Betesh Family 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$5kPhilanthropy$2kEducation$1kHealth$20Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$101
Median grant
3
States reached
$443
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SORALA FOUNDATION$2,000
SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$1,000
MEOR$252
Individual grant recipient$250
YESHIVA B'NEI TORAH$101
Individual grant recipient$101
OR-LETZION$101
NIR L'SHIMON INC$100
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM INC$100
Individual grant recipient$18
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YESHIVA B'NEI TORAH: $101 → 13%MESIVTA: $1k → 14%LEV AVI: $250 → 17%CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $2k → 20%SORALA FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%MEOR: $252 → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM INC: $100 → 13%YAD L'ACHIM PEYLEI ISRAEL: $52 → 20%CHAI OLAM: $1k → 11%KEHHILAT: $501 → 20%OR-LETZION: $101 → 20%MESILAT HACHAIM YESHIVA: $101 → 20%SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1k → 20%IMAGINE ACADEMY: $1k → 20%NIR L'SHIMON INC: $100 → 20%CHESED OF WILLIAMSBURG: $18 → 20%CHESED VOLUNTEERS OF WILLIAMSBURG INC: $18 → 20%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 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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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3
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Chazak

Chazak is a global Jewish organization that inspires, equips, and unites young people through the profound wisdom of the Torah and the rich Sephardic heritage. Within our diverse community, we strive to foster fulfilling lives and…

Youth Development
5
Darchei Noam Inc

To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…

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6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
Shirat David Inc

To create, form and establish an organization to promote the furtherance of jewish orthodox religious values in the united states, israel and around the world; to provide funding to support, promote, foster and encourage the practice of…

Religion
10
University of Judaism Foundation
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11
Meor Hachaim Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sephardic Community Alliance; the most unlike its peers is The Sorala Foundation. 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

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 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMESIVTA: $1,000 · OtherMESIVTAKEHHILAT: $501 · OtherKEHHILATIndividual grant recipient: $250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+7 more: $491 · Other+7 moreCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,800 · ReligionCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INCSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1,000 · ReligionSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCEAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies: $100 · ReligionTHE SORALA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SORALA FOUNDATIONIMAGINE ACADEMY: $1,038 · EducationIMAGINE ACADEMYMEOR INC: $252 · EducationMEOR INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20 · Health
Other$3,242Religion$2,900Philanthropy$2,000Education$1,290Health$20

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SORALA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE ACADEMY: $1,038 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEOR INC: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAD L'ACHIM PEYLEI ISRAEL: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Michael Sol Betesh Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Sol Betesh Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Michael Sol Betesh Family 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 18 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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