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The Alvin & Rose Berlin Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREG SHOMREI MISHMERES HAKODESH | $11,400 |
| BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $11,000 |
| TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA D'MIR | $8,300 |
| KEREN UFORATZTO INC | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHOMREI EMUNAH | $4,500 |
| NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE | $4,100 |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $4,000 |
| NAT'L CONFERENCE OF SYNAGOGUE YOUTH | $3,300 |
| CONGREGATION DERECH CHAIM INC | $2,000 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF BALTIMORE | $1,630 |
| MENUCHA INC | $1,500 |
| WOMEN'S INSTITUTE OF TORAH | $1,500 |
| SHEARITH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $1,310 |
| NER TAMID GREENPRING VLY SYNANOGUE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +4%
- SHSINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +25%
- MIMenucha Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- OUORTHODOX UNIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- YIYOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD BEACHone grant, 2023 · $600
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.
Religious Teaching
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
publish religious books
TO FOCUS ON JEWISH EDUCATION AND SPIRITUALITY AND to engage with the Almighty by means of passionate prayer, to delve into the inner dimensions of the Torah, and to grow in ones relationship with Hashem.
The Northeast Community Kollel was established to be a center for full time advanced Torah study in the Rhawnhurst section of Northeast Philadelphia and seeks to engage and inspire every Jew, regardless of education, observance or…
To help establish and maintain agendas for Hebrew and religious enlightenment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Baltimore Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
10 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. 10 of the 37 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWELS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Keren Uforatzto Inc ↗
- Who funds Menucha Inc ↗
- Who funds RABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MESORAH BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds RABBI JOSEPH BREUER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kol Koreh Inc ↗
- Who funds The Shidduch Center of Baltimore 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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Center for Jewish Education Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Volosov Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Torah Laws & Customs · The Adar Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Alvin and Hanna Gerstein Foundation Inc
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 The Alvin & Rose Berlin 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.
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 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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