· Private foundation
Nancy T Beren & Dr Larry S Jefferson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ROBERT M BEREN ACADEMY | $54,000 |
| PRESSMAN ACADEMY OF TEMPLE BETH AM THE RENA E GANZBERG EDUCATION CENTER | $36,000 |
| UNITED ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES OF HOUSTON | $19,070 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $10,511 |
| ISRAELI BOBSLED TEAM ADVANCING JEWISH ATHLETICS | $7,200 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON | $6,130 |
| MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,238 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA | $4,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| TIKVAH | $2,077 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY | $1,360 |
| CAMP LAURELWOOD | $1,049 |
| EMANUEL SYNAGOGUE | $246 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Nancy T Beren & Dr Larry S Jefferson 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMRobert M Beren Academy4× · 2021–2024 · $131k · revenue +25%
- USUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +111%
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
- EREvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houstonone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -31%
- EHEMANUEL HEBREW CEMETARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $12k
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Robert M Beren Academy ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AREYVUT INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL ↗
- Who funds CAMP LAURELWOOD INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy T Beren & Dr Larry S Jefferson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy T Beren & Dr Larry S Jefferson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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