How much does Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc give?

Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $4,138 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.

What does Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Philanthropy (40%), International (5%).

Who are Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Magen David Yeshivah ($12k), Chabad Torah Center ($4k), Keter David Inc ($3k).

Does Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2020, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc 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 Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, The Setton Foundation.

Where is Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc based?

Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc is based in NY.

Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc

Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc

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.

$4k

Granted FY2020

Grants FY2020

States reached

$3k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $4k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What it funds

0185% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$39kPhilanthropy$35kInternational$5kHealth$3kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$700Education$556Arts & Culture$501Other$0

02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$234

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE	$2,600
MAGEN AVRAHAM FUND	$501
CHABAD AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY	$500
SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER	$234
CONGREGATION TIFERES TORAH INC	$101
ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY	$101
HEICHAL HATORAH	$101

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $174) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 35% of Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.1% 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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7k · 12 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7k

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-33%

+15%

Still filing today

42%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionInternationalHealthOther

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

CA
CHABAD AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2020 · $2k
MA
MAGEN AVRAHAM FUND
4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue -22%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT NACHALAT YOSSEF
2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue -33%

Funded once

MD
MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH
one grant, 2019 · $12k
YB
YESHIVAS BEIS TSVI YAAKOV
one grant, 2017 · $5k
KD
KETER DAVID (RABBI SHIMON KATZ SHLITA)
one grant, 2019 · $4k

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.

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Tal Hashamayim Foundation

Religion

Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation

Philanthropy

Tzemach Yifroch Foundation

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American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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Yad Yosef Foundation

Philanthropy

Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund

Philanthropy

The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

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Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivat Shaare Torah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Magen Avraham Fund. 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

28 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. 28 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

17/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$39,927Other$38,572Religion$4,897International$2,652Education$722Health$252Youth Development$234

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.

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 FundNY30× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Jack D Cohen Foundation Inc · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Joseph Jack Sitt 1986 - Charitable Trust · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · E R G Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation 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 Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sol E Betesh & Sons Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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