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The Bff Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $360
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $391k
- $250k+2 grants · $716k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $425,000 |
| PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND | $290,740 |
| OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES | $150,000 |
| YESHIVA BETH JOSEPH TZVI DUSHINSKY | $100,000 |
| PINNACLE RTC INC | $90,552 |
| CONGREGATION BOBOV 45 | $50,000 |
| KHAL YEHUDA LEIB | $40,000 |
| YESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,129 |
| YESHIVA MEOR HATORAH | $360 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- GOGATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $855k · revenue +22%
- TPTHE PINNACLE RTC5× · 2020–2024 · $453k · revenue +53%
- OCOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- MYM Y KEREN HASHLUCHIM INCone grant, 2019 · $400k
- TSTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +28%
- MAMESIVTA ATERES YAAKOV OF GREATER LONG ISLANDone grant, 2020 · $200k
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.
To provide religious Jewish education.
The organization was established to broaden the knowledge of jewish individuals to their heritage. the organization provides seminars and courses in jewish history and the torah.
To provide financial support to the yeshiva knesseth yisroel institution, its rabbis, and students, and lend support to other religious institutions in israel and around the world, with the goal of furthering jewish values among the jewish…
Support of tzohar-a school for special needs children located in israel
To provide grants to religious schools providing higher education
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
To train rabbis, educators, and leaders who embody this vision in their teaching of torah, their spiritual support of individuals, and their building of diverse and welcoming communities; to foster and strengthen a network of rabbis and…
To conduct a school for Hebrew religious education
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To maintain a school for hebrew religious and secular education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paypal Charitable Giving Fund. 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 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINNACLE RTC ↗
- Who funds Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET MOSHE BETZALEL INC ↗
- Who funds OHR NAAVA ↗
- Who funds EAST MIDWOOD HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK ↗
- Who funds BOBBIES PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
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 Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Moshe & Simi Mehlman Charitable Foundation Inc · Eisenberg Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fjc · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Friends of Mosdot Goor · Maalot · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Bff Foundation Inc 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.
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute 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.
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