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The Beran Family Foundation at a glance

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The Beran Family 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.

$244k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$229kInternational$197kReligion$91kCrime & Legal$37kHuman Services$22kPhilanthropy$21kHealth$19kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$978k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIO$100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY FUQUA SC$18,000
BENJAMIN CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW$15,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$12,500
YACHAD$11,554
BOCA RATON SYNAGOGUE$10,000
TREVOR DAY SCHOOL$10,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$9,950
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$8,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$8,350
THE FRISCH SCHOOL$6,995
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$5,251
EMORY UNIVERSITY$5,000
SOLOMON SCHECTER BERGEN CTY$3,600
THE CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$3,600
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL HEART 2 HEART: $15k → 13%NEIGHBORS LINK: $200 → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $200 → 9%DOROT: $200 → 17%DOROT: $100 → 17%DOROT: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$683k · 43 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
38

Total granted

$683k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

53%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +3%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +16%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +3%
  • IH
    ISRAEL HEART2HEART INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • PI
    PEF ISRAEL ENDOWNMWNT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
Sherit Isroel
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9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Wexner Foundation
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11
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
12
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Israel Education Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANUEL: $44,873 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELDUKE UNIVERSITY FUQUA SC: $40,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY FUQUA SCBENJAMIN CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW: $39,700 · OtherBENJAMIN CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAWYACHAD: $27,704 · OtherYACHADTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY: $22,539 · OtherTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERG…TRUSTEES OF U OF P: $20,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF U OF PBOCA RATON SYNAGOGUE INC: $15,000 · Other+53 more: $106,301 · Other+53 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDAT…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,390 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEM…AMIT CHILDREN INC: $11,360 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,500 · International+7 more: $12,508 · InternationalWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $46,780 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SC…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $23,998 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYThe Frisch School: $22,477 · EducationThe Frisch SchoolTrevor Day School: $20,000 · EducationTrevor Day SchoolDUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,730 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNew York University: $16,100 · EducationNew York University+5 more: $13,450 · Education+5 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $38,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $24,851 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Shaalei Torah Inc: $4,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · HealthAMGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $220 · HealthISRAEL HEART2HEART INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $800 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $5,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$316,117International$259,758Education$199,535Philanthropy$69,351Health$21,220Human Services$15,800Recreation & Sports$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $46,780 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $38,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,390 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $24,851 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $23,998 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY: $22,539 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frisch School: $22,477 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,730 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $16,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL HEART2HEART INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $11,360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $4,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Shaalei Torah Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Frisch School ↗
  • Who funds Trevor Day School ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL HEART2HEART INC ↗
  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Shaalei Torah Inc ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗

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 FundJewish Federation of …The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…FjcMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
Jewish Communal FundNY24× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fjc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 The Beran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beran Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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