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The Bernard and Pamela Barbash Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$737k
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MInternational$789kReligion$475kHuman Services$137kPublic Benefit$129kHealth$120kArts & Culture$119kYouth Development$116kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $412k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$114,666
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI$45,000
REAGAN TOKES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$27,000
UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$25,000
ADATH ISRAEL$25,000
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER$20,000
CHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$15,000
CRAYONS TO COMPUTER$15,000
LEVINE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$15,000
JAFCO$15,000
MOST VALUABLE KIDS$15,000
NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $10k → 11%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $10k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $5k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $5k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $3k → 16%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

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 75 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
25

Total granted

$2.7M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+44%

Still filing today

53%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $632k · revenue +252%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    2× · 2023–2024 · $115k · revenue +31%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati
    6× · 2019–2024 · $61k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • RD
    R DELANEY TOKES MEMORIAL FDN
    one grant, 2019 · $22k
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION BARBASH FAMILY VITAL SUPPORT
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • MP
    MENORAH PARK
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
5
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

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6
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
7
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
8
Jewish Family Services

To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.

Human Services
9
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
10
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
12
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 112 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
46/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADATH ISRAEL: $156,965 · OtherADATH ISRAELUNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH: $125,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF PALM BEACHREAGAN TOKES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherREAGAN TOKES MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONCHABAD JEWISH CENTER: $121,880 · OtherCHABAD JEWISH CENTERCHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INC: $86,000 · OtherCHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INCMOST VALUABLE KIDS: $85,000 · OtherMOST VALUABLE KIDSJAFCO: $65,000 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $55,000 · Other+74 more: $716,525 · Other+74 moreJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $635,372 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Cincinn…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Cincin…CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $42,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $21,100 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $632,349 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGE…Central Fund of Israel: $115,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel+1 more: $12,000 · InternationalThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $5,500 · Arts & CultureThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,145 · Arts & CultureJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $61,000 · Recreation & SportsCincinnati Parks Foundation: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE INDIAN HILL WINTER CLUB INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesNEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $22,500 · Human ServicesLIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 · Human Services+3 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $55,000 · AnimalsTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $4,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · Animals
Other$1,536,370Philanthropy$883,972International$759,349Arts & Culture$82,645Recreation & Sports$76,000Human Services$75,500Animals$61,000

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 budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $635,372 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $632,349 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $61,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYavneh Day School Association: $43,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $25,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $22,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati: $16,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProKids: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Education for Every Person: $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDIAN HILL WINTER CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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 Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Yavneh Day School Association ↗
  • Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds THE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
  • Who funds NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL ↗
  • Who funds LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bernard and Pamela Barbash Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernard and Pamela Barbash Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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