· Private foundation
The Dennis Berman Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $728k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $623k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY | $160,496 |
| WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $88,000 |
| MOMENTUM | $50,000 |
| JCRC | $45,000 |
| YIEIP | $41,450 |
| MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,850 |
| KEHILAT PARDES - THE ROCK CREEK SYNAGOGUE | $32,500 |
| HIDABROOT | $30,000 |
| CHABAD OF ROCKVILLE | $28,000 |
| YAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $26,500 |
| TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
319 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 229 since wound down; 18 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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
- MJMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
- YOYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC6× · 2018–2024 · $616k · revenue +28%
- MUMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC5× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- JJWRPone grant, 2018 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $30k
- COCHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MARYLAND INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Support of religious schools in Israel
Religious Teaching
Religious School
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
Charity and education in u.s. and israel
None
publish religious books
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
162 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. 162 of the 698 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 MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sulam Inc ↗
- Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah ↗
- Who funds HATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ZO ARTZEINU INC DBA THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT/MANHIGUT YEHU ↗
- Who funds CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DESTINY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Gemsy Zay Foundation Inc · The Tzedakah Fund · Gutman Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Jmg Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Ojc Fund · Mayberg 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 Dennis Berman Family 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.
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov — 2% of income from government
- Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy — 2% of income from government
- The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% 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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