· Private foundation
The Bethesda 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COALITION SUPPORTING EURASIAN JEWRY | $40,142 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF NEAR EAST POLICY | $25,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI TZEDEK | $5,850 |
| DC JAZZ FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL POLICY FORUM | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SO WHAT ELSE INC | $2,500 |
| SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC | $1,800 |
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 (FY19–19, $180) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +51%
- TATexas A&M Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +90%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- AGAJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AFASSOCIATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -46%
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.
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…
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of hillel at washington university in st louis is to be a catalyst for jewish life among college students in st louis. we connect students with one another and with jewish culture and traditions through service and social…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish Committee and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 35 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DC JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds KEEN GREATER DC LLC ↗
- Who funds ALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT QUEENS COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Learnserve International ↗
- Who funds Zionist Rabbinic Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Urban Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
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 Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · David S Stone Foundation Inc · The MB Lewis Charitable Foundation · Bender Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Mayberg Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Bethesda 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.
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% 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.