Kansas · Private foundation
Robert M Beren 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.
- $30M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $551M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 29% of the organizations Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 47 | $23M | 66% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $16M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $12M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beren Sea Foundation | $14,000,000 | 4 | 69% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $3,750,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Robert M Beren Academy | $2,550,000 | 4 | 20% |
| The Tikvah Fund | $2,470,000 | 3 | 9% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc | $1,550,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $1,025,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Camp Ramah in California Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Tzohar Israel Foundation | $710,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc | $574,800 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($20M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jack Miller Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Donors Trust Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc give?
- Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc reported 52 grants totaling $30,064,336 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Education (27%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Beren Sea Foundation ($14M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($3.8M), Robert M Beren Academy ($2.5M).
- Does Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc based?
- Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc is based in KS.
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