· Private foundation
The Bessie 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE HAR SHALOM | $11,000 |
| WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION | $6,262 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| SIXTH AND I SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
| CAPITOL LANGUAGE SERVICES | $2,240 |
| EGYPTIAN THEATRE | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE INTERNET CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $2,000 |
| PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (JDC) | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JCC BUDAPEST | $1,040 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) | $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 (FY18–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
61 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 14 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SISIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +26%
- THTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2021 · $21k · revenue +358%
- TIThe Ivymount School Inc3× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ATADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +41%
- UEUKRAINE EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SLSALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Federation of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Millville Volunteer Fire Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 131 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 SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds The Ivymount School Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Imadi Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROBINSON RANCH LLC ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Duber Family Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · American Gift Fund · George Wasserman Family 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 Bessie Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Millville Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 42% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.