· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bff Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bff Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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