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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$3.4MEducation$2.2MPhilanthropy$714kInternational$420kArts & Culture$306kHealth$249kHuman Services$232kYouth Development$119kOther$0
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k64 grants · $239k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $728k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $623k
$6,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY$160,496
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION$125,000
YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION 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
BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA$25,000
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 (FY18–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%HAKSHIVA: $1k → 17%CHASDEI NAOMI USA FRIENDS: $650 → 16%HAKSHIVA: $925 → 17%CHASDEI NAOMI USA FRIENDS: $540 → 16%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $450 → 14%MOSDOS NESIVAS SHALOM: $450 → 14%BELEV ECHOD: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%MISHKAN YITZCHAK: $700 → 11%MISHKAN YITZCHAK: $650 → 11%GEMACH OF JACKSON: $360 → 11%AHAVAS TZEDAKA: $120 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $2k → 11%SULAM: $18k → 8%SULAM: $18k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 8%SULAM: $15k → 8%SULAM: $15k → 8%SULAM: $10k → 8%SULAM: $10k → 8%SOS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%RELIEF RESOURCES: $600 → 20%RELIEF RESOURCES: $500 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP INC: $1k → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP INC: $960 → 20%HEBREW SHELTERING HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%HEBREW SHELTERING HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%HEBREW SHELTERING HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%HEBREW SHELTERING HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF HADAR ZION: $500 → 20%FRIENDS OF HADAR ZION: $500 → 20%SHIFRA'S ARMS: $7k → 8%IN SHIFRA'S ARMS: $7k → 8%TIKVA LEDOROS: $500 → 20%SHIFRA'S ARMS: $6k → 8%SHIFRA'S ARMS: $5k → 8%BETH OLOTH: $2k → 20%BETH OLOTH: $2k → 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

ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 319 repeat orgs$821k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

319
359

Total granted

$8.2M
$558k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+47%

Still filing today

32%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • MJ
    MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
  • YO
    YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $616k · revenue +28%
  • MH
    MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $250k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • J
    JWRP
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • CO
    CHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MARYLAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
3
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
4
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
7
Sherit Isroel
—
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

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.

Religion
9
American Friends of Hamesorah Talmud Torah Inc

Charity and education in u.s. and israel

—
10
University of Judaism Foundation
—
11
American Friends of Amaleh Shel Torah Inc

None

Education
12
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

163 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. 163 of the 698 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
67
Early backer (in before they grew)
152/163
Grantees still filing
113/163
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $626,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJCRC: $230,000 · OtherYIEIP: $188,350 · OtherKEHILAT PARDES - THE ROCK CREEK SYNAGOGUE: $187,500 · OtherYAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $168,000 · Other+135 more: $3,432,511 · Other+135 moreMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,066,102 · ReligionMELVIN J BERMAN HE…MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $250,000 · ReligionMOMENTUM UNLIMITED…CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Religion+10 more: $150,900 · Religion+10 moreYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $616,000 · EducationYESHIVA OF GRE…THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $210,000 · EducationTHE TORAH SCHO…American Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah: $76,800 · EducationAmerican Frien…HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $60,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF ZO ARTZEINU INC DBA THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT/MANHIGUT YEHU: $60,000 · EducationTHE DESTINY FOUNDATION: $56,500 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $40,000 · Education+4 more: $45,400 · EducationTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $570,000 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC: $79,500 · Philanthropy+7 more: $70,590 · PhilanthropyWorldwide Friends Foundation: $125,000 · InternationalHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · InternationalTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC: $65,400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $32,250 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $28,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $19,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $16,500 · InternationalISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $15,000 · International+7 more: $43,400 · InternationalMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCLARION PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSulam Inc: $86,000 · Human ServicesIN SHIFRAS ARMS INC: $24,500 · Human ServicesHEBREW SHELTERING HOME: $5,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,600 · Human Services+3 more: $9,400 · Human Services
Other$4,832,761Religion$1,527,002Education$1,164,700Philanthropy$720,090International$417,050Arts & Culture$350,000Human Services$134,500

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 budgetMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,066,102 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $616,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $570,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWorldwide Friends Foundation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSulam Inc: $86,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $79,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah: $76,800 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC: $65,400 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZO ARTZEINU INC DBA THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT/MANHIGUT YEHU: $60,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DESTINY FOUNDATION: $56,500 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetTORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL: $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetShoresh Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND JEWISH EXPERIENCE: $34,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $32,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $26,700 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetIN SHIFRAS ARMS INC: $24,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC: $24,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $22,290 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $21,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARGE SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $19,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $16,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION INC CO MR AVI SCHOEMANN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMESORAH INC: $11,600 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JERUSALEM KOLLEL INC: $10,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNECHAMAS ZION MARYLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH ART FOR HEALING INC: $10,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ISRAEL ALLIES CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHEL AVRAHAM: $9,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTZEDAKAH FUND: $9,250 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetOHR SOMAYACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,250 over 6y, 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 MELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • 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 CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ZO ARTZEINU INC DBA THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT/MANHIGUT YEHU ↗
  • Who funds THE DESTINY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Gemsy Zay Foundation …The Tzedakah FundGutman Family Foundat…Zichron Yechiel Meche…The Jimmy and Berta K…Brian and Dafna Berma…The Jmg FoundationThe Jewish Federation…The Ojc FundMayberg Foundation Inc
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD89.1× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 360%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
36get no government money at all
12report 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.
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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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