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The Bezalel Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bezalel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$850k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
10
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Bezalel Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Bezalel Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $850k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’21
22
’22
17
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$9.7MInternational$584kCrime & Legal$438kEducation$356kHuman Services$187kCivil Rights$120kReligion$63kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $575k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of Kolot Inc$150,000
The Emery Weiner School$150,000
Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc$125,000
University of Houston Law Foundation$50,000
Beyond Borders$50,000
Center for Law and Social Policy$50,000
Washington Office on Latin America$40,000
King Baudouin Foundation (Donor Advised Fund)$40,000
Creating Hope International$40,000
Charities Aid Foundation of America$35,000
My Connect Community$30,000
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights$25,000
Project Kesher$25,000
Child Abuse Network Inc$5,000
Equal Justice Center$5,000
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 (FY22–23, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Clarehouse Inc: $500 → 15%Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc: $125k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $25k → 15%My Connect Community: $30k → 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

MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC
OK
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$775k · 11 repeat orgs$770k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$775k
$135k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • PK
    Project Kesher
    2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue +24%
  • TP
    THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $135k
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
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
2
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
3
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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4
Jumpstart Labs Inc Dba Jewish Jumpstart Jslabs

To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…

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5
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
6
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
7
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
10
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
11
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
12
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc; the most unlike its peers is Creating Hope International. 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

31 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. 31 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $8,110,267 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+2 more: $37,500 · Community ImprovementVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITAB…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $220,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWM…+1 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyThe Emery Weiner School: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $60,000 · OtherProject Kesher: $45,000 · OtherKing Baudouin Foundation (Donor Advised Fund): $40,000 · OtherMYRAID USA INC KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION AKA KBFUS (DAF): $35,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA AKA CAF AMERICA: $35,000 · OtherWASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA AKA WOLA: $30,000 · OtherCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL AKA CHI DBA SAKENA FUND: $25,000 · OtherHouston Hillel: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $36,500 · OtherUniversity of Houston Law Foundation: $185,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLOT INC: $175,000 · EducationThe EmeryWeiner School Foundation: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $14,500 · EducationBEYOND BORDERS INC: $90,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA: $40,000 · InternationalCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $25,000 · International+1 more: $4,500 · InternationalCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesMy Connect Community: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY: $100,000 · Crime & LegalChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$8,147,767Philanthropy$1,755,000Other$641,500Education$394,500International$243,500Human Services$180,500Crime & Legal$107,500

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $8,110,267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $220,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Houston Law Foundation: $185,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLOT INC: $175,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT OF TULSA COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEYOND BORDERS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Hillel: $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetProject Kesher: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Connect Community: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe EmeryWeiner School Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRIMARY SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRISTESSE GRIEF CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHILDHOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEqual Justice Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDWIGHT HALL AT YALE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMANCIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClarehouse Inc: $500 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.

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.

Charles and Lynn Schu…Tides FoundationOpen Society InstituteGrace & Franklin Bern…Ralph and Frances McG…The Gelvin FoundationThe Sharna and Irvin …Oneok Foundation IncHouston Jewish Commun…Public Welfare Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family FoundationOK15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Open Society Institute · Grace & Franklin Bernsen Foundation · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation

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 Bezalel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bezalel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc: 37% of income from government
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 41 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home