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The Bressler-Robbins Foundation

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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

International$149kHealth$77kReligion$75kCivil Rights$35kScience & Tech$33kPhilanthropy$23kFood & Nutrition$22kEducation$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$675k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$10,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$10,000
PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC$2,000
OAK PARK TEMPLE - BNAI ABRAHAM-ZION$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $5k → 7%PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $5k → 7%PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $5k → 7%PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$350k · 36 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
12

Total granted

$350k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+26%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $63k · revenue +198%
  • AC
    AMIT CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +143%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    4× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • WJ
    WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION FUND FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Houston Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts OrganizationsJewish Community FederationsCommunity Health CentersFood Pantries & Assistance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%53%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,729

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $63,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMAMIT CHILDREN INC — $45,000 · InternationalAMIT CHILDREN INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $18,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $15,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) …AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $12,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE O…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC+3 more — $10,000 · International+3 moreWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS — $18,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSPARENT PROJ MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY — $15,000 · OtherPARENT PROJ MUSCULAR DYSTROPHYALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL — $12,000 · OtherALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA…COLEL CHABAD — $11,000 · OtherCOLEL CHABADJEWISH FEDERATION FUND FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS — $10,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION FUND FOR ASYLUM SEEKER…HADASSAH — $10,000 · OtherHADASSAHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM — $8,000 · OtherBNAI ABRAHAM-ZION CONGREGATION — $8,000 · OtherOAK PARK TEMPLE - BNAI ABRAHAM-ZION — $8,000 · OtherAMER SOCIETY FOR TECHNION CHICAGO — $6,000 · OtherAMER FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,000 · Other+20 more — $47,000 · Other+20 moreRush University Medical Center — $14,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,100 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$183,000Other$159,000Health$26,350Civil Rights$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$17,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $63,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC
  • Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Bressler-Robbins 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Bressler-Robbins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bressler-Robbins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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