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Sam Berman Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVID POSNACK JCC | $250,000 |
| HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY | $75,000 |
| WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR & SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FL FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| ISRAEL HEART 2 HEART | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER JACKSONVILL | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS | $8,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $800k · revenue +120%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SOUTH BROWARD INC2× · 2023–2024 · $275k · revenue +21%
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $250k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CBCARRMA BASKETBALL INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · 39% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +42%
- GJGOODMAN JFS OF BROWARD COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Enrich the lives of jewish students
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
To support the greater miami jewish federation and other irc code section 501(c)(3) organizations. philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carrma Basketball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SOUTH BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION AFRICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JAFCO Children's Ability Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NO MORE TEARS INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds CARRMA BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
- Who funds Buncombe County Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Vyuha Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · Fjc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Sam Berman Charitable 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.
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Jewish Community Centers of South Broward Inc — 8% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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