· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KHAL AHAVAS YISROEL TZEMACH TZEDEK | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- OUORTHODOX UNIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- YIYOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD BEACHone grant, 2023 · $600
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 37 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 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 Kol Koreh Inc ↗
- Who funds RABBI JOSEPH BREUER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Shidduch Center of Baltimore 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alvin & Rose Berlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alvin & Rose Berlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewels School Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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