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Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$31MEducation$18MReligion$8.0MInternational$6.2MYouth Development$1.6MCivil Rights$1.3MHealth$928kHuman Services$269kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+25 grants · $28M
$200,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$551M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEREN SEA FOUNDATION$5,500,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$4,000,000
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$2,500,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$2,000,000
TIKVAH FUND$1,660,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON$1,381,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$1,350,000
Individual grant recipient$1,216,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOSANGELES$1,000,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CAMP RAMAH$1,000,000
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC$750,000
TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION$710,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$500,000
SINAI TEMPLE$500,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE KIND KITCHEN OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $200k → 11%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 62 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
43

Total granted

$44M
$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+27%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
InternationalReligionEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    BEREN SEA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +309% · 69% of their budget
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +19%
  • RM
    Robert M Beren Academy
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -25%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +110%
  • BC
    BRANDEIS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

04Its 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.

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University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
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
4
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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5
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
6
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
7
Sherit Isroel
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8
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
9
The Jerusalem Connection
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10
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
11
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
12
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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beren Sea Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 145 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
49/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $14,000,000 · PhilanthropyBEREN SEA FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $3,800,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,750,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILAN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,268,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC+6 more: $500,650 · PhilanthropyHARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS: $15,006,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT AND FELLOWSRobert M Beren Academy: $2,550,000 · OtherRobert M Beren AcademyJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $1,381,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,216,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOSANGELES: $1,000,000 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000,000 · Other+85 more: $4,651,802 · Other+85 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,000,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,365,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,025,500 · InternationalNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · International+7 more: $206,200 · InternationalTHE TIKVAH FUND: $2,470,000 · EducationPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $281,060 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $275,000 · Education+7 more: $114,600 · EducationTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $710,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $375,000 · ReligionNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $345,540 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $300,000 · ReligionHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $125,000 · Religion+5 more: $152,500 · ReligionFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $1,550,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentERASE PTSD NOW INC: $250,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 · Health+7 more: $15,250 · Health
Philanthropy$29,318,650Other$26,804,802International$5,146,700Education$3,140,660Religion$2,008,040Youth Development$1,555,000Health$415,250

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 budgetBEREN SEA FOUNDATION: $14,000,000 over 4y, 69% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $3,800,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,750,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRobert M Beren Academy: $2,550,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $2,470,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,268,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $1,550,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $1,381,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,365,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,025,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $710,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $410,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $375,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $345,540 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER: $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC: $281,060 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetERASE PTSD NOW INC: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBrothers for Life: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC: $60,900 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $54,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEXTBOOK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWellesley College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAREYVUT INC: $36,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKind Kitchen of Palm beach Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $5,987 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $5,000 over 3y, 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 FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jewish Federation of …Jack Miller Family Fo…United Jewish Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Donors Trust IncJewish Community Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
9report 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert M Beren Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert M Beren 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 145 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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