· Private foundation
The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE EDWIN J AND BARBARA R BERKOWITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $606k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $651k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH AM ISRAEL | $130,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $107,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $100,000 |
| HAR ZION TEMPLE | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM | $91,666 |
| METZAD CONGREGATION | $72,000 |
| GAN ISRAEL DAY CAMP | $50,000 |
| THE WOMENS LAW PROJECT | $35,000 |
| PAWS & AFFECTION | $35,000 |
| BIKE PITTSBURGH | $33,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| HIGHMARK CARING PLACE | $30,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $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 (FY17–25, $396k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
73 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k 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
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +62%- WLWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT8× · 2018–2025 · $238k · revenue +55%
- BPBIKE PITTSBURGH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER Pone grant, 2017 · $393k
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +164%
- TCTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +8%
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Caring Foundation. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 133 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
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds BIKE PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Caring Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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 Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Tzedakah Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Stern Academy Inc · Katz Family Charitable Trust · David S Shapira Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation
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 Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pathways Vermont Inc — 65% 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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