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Mjb Family Foundation

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.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$185kEducation$134kPhilanthropy$89kPublic Benefit$53kHealth$1kArts & Culture$300Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD HILLEL$20,000
BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,000
COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$6,000
CONGREGATION BETH TIKVAH$4,500
LOVELAND SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LOVELAND SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK: $1k → 8%CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUND: $15k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR: $3k → 14%JACQUES ZAKIN AWARD FUND: $300 → 15%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $80k → 8%CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUND: $12k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR: $3k → 14%OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES: $5k → 15%HARVARD HILLEL: $70k → 8%CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUND: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR: $1k → 14%OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES: $5k → 15%HARVARD HILLEL: $25k → 8%CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUND: $8k → 17%THE BUCKEYE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS: $3k → 15%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $25k → 8%THE BUCKEYE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS: $3k → 15%HARVARD HILLEL: $25k → 8%THE BUCKEYE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SOLUTIONS: $3k → 15%HARVARD HILLEL: $20k → 8%CONGREGATION BETH TIKVAH: $5k → 15%HARVARD HILLEL: $20k → 8%COLUMBUS JEWISH FEDERATION: $35k → 15%HARVARD HILLEL: $20k → 8%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%THE HARVARD ADVOCATE: $1k → 8%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $7k → 15%COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $6k → 15%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $5k → 15%COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $5k → 15%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$272k · 6 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$272k
$1k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationOther

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

  • HF
    HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $180k · revenue +93%
  • CS
    Columbus School for Girls
    4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +8%
  • GA
    GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • JZ
    JACQUES ZAKIN AWARD FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $300

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
2
Columbus Jewish Foundation

Make Jewish life vibrant, safe, and accessible in Columbus, Israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
3
Rutgers Hillel Corporation

Rutgers hillel is dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all jewish college students, where they are encouraged to grow intellectually, spiritually and socially. the organization helps students find a balance in…

4
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
5
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
6
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

7
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

12
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Bexley Community 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $180,000 · ReligionHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $105,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvar…Columbus School for Girls — $23,000 · EducationColumbus School for GirlsBEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $42,500 · PhilanthropyBEXLEY COMMUNITY FO…Jewish Federation of Columbus — $35,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation o…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyCONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUND — $44,500 · OtherCONFERENCE OF PRES…GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · OtherGOVERNMENT AFFAIRS…The Buckeye Institute — $8,000 · OtherThe Buckeye Instit…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $6,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNI…CONGREGATION BETH TIKVAH — $4,500 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH …+3 more — $2,300 · Other
Religion$180,000Education$128,000Philanthropy$78,500Other$75,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $42,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetColumbus School for Girls — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus
  • Who funds Columbus School for Girls
  • Who funds GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF OHIO JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds The Buckeye Institute
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT

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.

Columbus FoundationOH15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Mjb Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mjb Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mjb Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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