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The Blumenfeld Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$447kEducation$56kArts & Culture$41kInternational$27kHealth$14kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,732
ZICHRON AVOSEINEI$8,200
CONG KETER TORAH$6,953
NOAM HATORAH$6,000
BETH MEDRASH OF BERGENFIELD$4,000
YESHIVA NOAM$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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $360 → 14%CHICAGO CHESSED FUND: $200 → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $360 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $250 → 11%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $720 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN CNTY: $720 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $540 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $500 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $360 → 7%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%MATAN B'SETER BAMBI: $360 → 20%MATAN BSETER BAMBI: $180 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $180 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $100 → 20%MATAN BSESER BAMBI: $72 → 20%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$869k · 94 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
120

Total granted

$869k
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+12%

Still filing today

32%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED
    3× · 2019–2023 · $56k · revenue +51%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $39k · revenue +274%
  • YN
    YESHIVAT NOAM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorahgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +87%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
  • YL
    YESHIVAT LEV HATORAH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
6
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
8
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
9
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
10
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
11
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
12
American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 245 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $79,834 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $57,082 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAAYANOT: $49,960 · OtherMAAYANOTCONGREGATION BNAI YESHURUN: $35,940 · Other+151 more: $384,888 · Other+151 moreFRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED: $56,100 · ReligionFRIENDS O…Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $16,360 · ReligionOhr Torah…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC: $7,473 · ReligionAMERICAN …WORLD TZURBA INSTITUTE INC: $5,400 · ReligionWORLD TZU…+6 more: $5,152 · Religion+6 moreYESHIVAT NOAM: $35,075 · EducationAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah: $25,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationThe Frisch School: $5,380 · Education+5 more: $3,800 · EducationFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $39,060 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $180 · Arts & CultureCentral Fund of Israel: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $3,800 · InternationalJUST ONE LIFE INC: $3,536 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $1,440 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $688 · InternationalCHASDEI AVOS: $680 · International+5 more: $1,640 · InternationalHEBRON FUND INC: $6,178 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,800 · PhilanthropyProject Ezrah Needs Inc: $2,160 · PhilanthropyHASC PA INC: $2,016 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $610 · Philanthropy+3 more: $923 · PhilanthropySharsheret Inc: $7,816 · HealthPROJECT YECHI INC: $1,580 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $660 · Health+1 more: $252 · Health
Other$782,704Religion$90,485Education$77,255Arts & Culture$39,240International$16,784Philanthropy$15,687Health$10,308

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED: $56,100 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $39,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT NOAM: $35,075 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $16,360 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $7,816 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH AND TEFILAH RAMAT ESHKOL INC: $7,473 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $6,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $6,178 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD TZURBA INSTITUTE INC: $5,400 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Frisch School: $5,380 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH: $3,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $3,536 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $2,840 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $2,670 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $2,230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezrah Needs Inc: $2,160 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHASC PA INC: $2,016 over 2y, 48% of budgetTEANECK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $1,886 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT YECHI INC: $1,580 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $1,440 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $1,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAALEH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHR SOMAYACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCORE OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $780 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $780 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $688 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASDEI AVOS: $680 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATAN B'SETER BAMBIINC: $612 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $610 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $610 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HASC INC: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MORASHA INC: $460 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Chesed Inc: $383 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTorat Shraga Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANIELLE MILLER FOUNDATION: $360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRevived Soldiers Ukraine: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $252 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcJewish Federation of …The Arthur & Joyce Fe…The Ojc FundDavid & Esther Musche…George and Ellen Frie…Granit FoundationCross River Community…Jewish Federation of …M D Katz Foundation I…The Alan and Elisa Pi…
Jewish Communal FundNY46.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 245 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home