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Sam & Michelle Barski Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$214k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0154% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$25kHealth$7kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,365, the rows itemized in this filing. The $214,381 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $209,016 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,365
Median grant
1
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Blue Cross Blue Shield$5,365
02Its field
03the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 14 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)
1/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA BETH JOSEPH: $10,860 · OtherYESHIVA BETH JOSEPHVarious: $9,406 · OtherVariousBlue Cross Blue Shield: $7,403 · OtherBlue Cross Blue ShieldYeshivas Mir Yerushalayim Affilliates LLC: $6,000 · OtherYeshivas Mir Yerushalayim Affilliates LLCBAIS HAMEDRASH YESHIAS ISRAEL INC: $3,400 · OtherBAIS HAMEDRASH YESHIAS ISRAEL INCHatzalah of Crown Heights: $1,800 · Other+6 more: $4,560 · Other+6 moreTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $2,000 · ReligionAHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$43,429Religion$2,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗
  • Who funds AHAVAS TZEDOKOS CORP ↗

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.

The Ojc FundNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $119k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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