· Private foundation
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 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 · $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 55 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 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 ANIMAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam Berman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam Berman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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