· Private foundation
The Blumenfeld 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,732 |
| ZICHRON AVOSEINEI | $8,200 |
| CONG KETER TORAH | $6,953 |
| NOAM HATORAH | $6,000 |
| YESHIVA NOAM | $4,000 |
| BETH MEDRASH OF BERGENFIELD | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,980 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,980 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $1,800 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,540 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,540 |
| TEANECK MIKVAH ASSOCIATION | $1,111 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,072 |
| HEBRON FUND | $1,028 |
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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 28 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED3× · 2019–2023 · $56k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC2× · 2018–2023 · $39k · revenue +274%
- YNYESHIVAT NOAM8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- AFAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorahgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +87%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $14k
- YLYESHIVAT LEV HATORAHone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 further jewish education in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
Religious School
Furtherance of jewish education
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 245 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT NOAM ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD TZURBA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · The Ojc Fund · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation · Granit Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · M D Katz Foundation Inc · The Alan and Elisa Pines 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 Blumenfeld 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Frisch School — 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Bergen County — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.