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The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.7MReligion$1.4MYouth Development$557kInternational$442kArts & Culture$412kHuman Services$347kHealth$333kCivil Rights$261kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $606k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $651k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HIGHMARK CARING PLACE$30,000
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS PROGRAM$30,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIP$25,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $25k → 7%PATHWAYS VERMONT: $3k → 10%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $20k → 7%PATHWAYS VERMONT: $3k → 10%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $20k → 7%PATHWAYS VERMONT: $3k → 10%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%HEARING LOSS ASSN OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $14k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS YAD ELIEZER: $30k → 11%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $14k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS YAD ELIEZER: $20k → 11%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $14k → 11%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15k → 7%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%CITY OF ASYLUM: $15k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $15k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $15k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $10k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $4k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $4k → 11%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $10k → 22%GOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS: $10k → 22%PAWS & AFFECTION: $35k → 7%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

VT
NH
IL
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 73 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
44

Total granted

$4.1M
$697k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+45%

Still filing today

45%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +62%
  • WL
    WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT
    8× · 2018–2025 · $238k · revenue +55%
  • Philabundance
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER P
    one grant, 2017 · $393k
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +164%
  • TC
    THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +8%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
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
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
The Jerusalem Connection
—
10
Jewish Year Abroad

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

International
11
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
—
12
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 133 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
38/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER P: $393,333 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PMETZAD CONGREGATION: $186,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JAFFA INSTITUTE: $160,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PHILADELPHIA: $134,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AM ISRAEL: $133,500 · OtherGAN ISRAEL DAY CAMP: $130,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM: $124,999 · OtherAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $225,000 · OtherAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPSBIKE PITTSBURGH INC: $211,000 · OtherBIKE PITTSBURGH INCPhilabundance: $180,000 · Other+85 more: $1,828,500 · Other+85 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,289,166 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GR…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FU…+3 more: $34,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $155,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASYLUM: $62,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $50,000 · Human ServicesPAWS AND AFFECTION INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $238,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $150,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $180,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $40,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $36,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10,000 · International+2 more: $6,500 · InternationalPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $270,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $80,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $23,500 · EducationHASHEVAYNU INC: $21,000 · EducationMEOR INC: $20,000 · EducationHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · Education+6 more: $32,500 · Education
Other$3,706,332Philanthropy$1,398,666Human Services$398,000Civil Rights$388,000International$282,500Arts & Culture$277,000Education$277,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,289,166 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $270,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: $238,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $225,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetBIKE PITTSBURGH INC: $211,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $180,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $155,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $82,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH: $82,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMORRIS AND ROSE CASKEY TORAH ACADEMY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $75,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $62,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $54,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $54,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCaring Foundation: $40,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS AND AFFECTION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $33,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVIKING WRESTLING BOOSTERS CLUB INC: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $23,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHASHEVAYNU INC: $21,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $20,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEOR INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN SLIPPER CENTER FOR SENIORS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF ITAMAR INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Mercaz Harav Kook: $14,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $13,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS BOSTON IN ISRAEL INC: $9,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS VERMONT INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $6,000 over 3y, 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 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 Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds Caring Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗

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 Federation of …Erlbaum Family Founda…Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …Foundation for Jewish…The Pittsburgh Founda…Tzedakah FoundationAssociated Jewish Cha…Stern Academy IncKatz Family Charitabl…David S Shapira Found…Ahavas Avraham Founda…
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Pathways Vermont Inc: 65% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 133 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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