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Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2020
28
Grants FY2020
28
Organizations funded FY2020
54%
First-time grantees FY2020
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76% of Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $9k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’17
9
’18
11
’19
19
’20
7
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$200
Largest grant, FY2020
$1,165
Organizations funded a year
15 to 28
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 54% of the organizations Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202028$9k54%
FY201920$12k30%
FY201815$4k27%
FY201715$5kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

International$119kReligion$26kHuman Services$8kHealth$8kEducation$6kCivil Rights$4kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CO
VA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$4,45750%
North Shore Congregation Israel$3,7894n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$3,28450%
Mid-Island y Jewish Community Center In$2,86620%
Center for Hope and Safety Inc$2,50010%
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun$2,4841n/a
East Hill Synagogue$2,2892n/a
Makomny Inc$2,1252n/a
Jewish Art Salon Inc$1,6252n/a
Writers Theatre Inc$91840%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$4,45750%
North Shore Congregation Israel$3,7894n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$3,28450%
Mid-Island y Jewish Community Center In$2,86620%
Center for Hope and Safety Inc$2,50010%
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun$2,4841n/a
East Hill Synagogue$2,2892n/a
Makomny Inc$2,1252n/a
Jewish Art Salon Inc$1,6252n/a
Writers Theatre Inc$91840%
Sefaria Inc$80120%
Lenox Hill Bikur Cholim Inc$64811%
The Art Institute of Chicago$41040%
Studio Montclair Inc$40010%
America Gives Inc$37510%
Chicago Horticultural Society$37540%
Denver Academy of Torah$35010%
American Friends of Leket Israel Inc$32410%
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass$30540%
Fugees Family Inc$25010%
Ramaz School$1481n/a
Theatre Development Fund Inc$12010%
Montclair Local Nonprofit News Inc$10010%
The Art Center of Highland Park$10010%
Sunbird Initiative$10010%
March of Dimes Inc$10010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10010%
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc$5010%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $4,457 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $3,284 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Island y Jewish Community Center In: $2,866 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Hope and Safety Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $918 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSefaria Inc: $801 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLenox Hill Bikur Cholim Inc: $648 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $410 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStudio Montclair Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerica Gives Inc: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Academy of Torah: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Leket Israel Inc: $324 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Alliance for Contemporary Glass: $305 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFugees Family Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Development Fund Inc: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontclair Local Nonprofit News Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Center of Highland Park: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunbird Initiative: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover 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.

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About Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation

How much does Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation give?
Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $8,625 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are International (63%), Religion (14%), Human Services (4%).
Who are Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($4k), North Shore Congregation Israel ($4k), Chai Lifeline Inc ($3k).
Does Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation 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 Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation based?
Samuel & Bertha Marinbach Foundation is based in NY.

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 53 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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