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The Farbenblum Foundation at a glance

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The Farbenblum 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.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$98k
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 2024.

Religion$975kEducation$283kInternational$116kCivil Rights$25kArts & Culture$20kHealth$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$534k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BE'ER HAGOLAH INSTITUE$98,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$30,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH ON CAMPUS - PRINCETON$20,000
CONGREGATION VAYIGDAL MOSHE$18,000
SHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC$10,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$7,500
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BONEI OLAM: $5k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 64% of The Farbenblum Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 27%.

The Farbenblum Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 10 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$1.2M
$360k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
EducationInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterReligionHuman ServicesArts & 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

  • BH
    BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +5%
  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA
    3× · 2018–2022 · $155k · revenue +128%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $135k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • KG
    KEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +16%
  • C
    CIJE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
3
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
6
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
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
9
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
10
University of Judaism Foundation
—
11
Tamim Academies
Philanthropy
12
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shavei Hevron Institutions Inc; the most unlike its peers is Netzach Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION VAYIGDAL MOSHE: $406,000 · OtherCONGREGATION VAYIGDAL MOSHEBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $200,000 · OtherBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INCIndividual grant recipient: $163,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRABBINICAL COLLEGE: $85,000 · OtherRABBINICAL COLLEGECIJE: $50,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL: $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INITIATIVE IN JEWISH ED: $50,000 · Other+14 more: $103,992 · Other+14 moreRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA: $155,000 · EducationRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERI…CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION: $135,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN J…The Trustees of Princeton University: $75,008 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton U…MATTEH MOSHE INC: $18,000 · Education+1 more: $12,000 · EducationKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $80,000 · PhilanthropySIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $7,500 · InternationalKOL HANEARIM INC: $3,500 · InternationalTZUR FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · ReligionBonei Olam Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,108,592Education$395,008Philanthropy$80,000Arts & Culture$25,000International$21,000Religion$7,500Human Services$5,000

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 budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA: $155,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION: $135,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKEREN GEMILAS CHASODIM FOUNDATION CO READ PROPERTY GROUP: $80,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $75,008 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTEH MOSHE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLAH RABBINICAL COLLEGE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNETZACH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOL HANEARIM INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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 Communal FundThe Ojc FundJewish Community Foun…Otzar Hachesed Founda…Dlh Foundation IncDinim FoundationCaroline & Joseph S G…Md Friedman Family Fo…The Ezra Charitable T…National Society for …Jewish Federation of …Fjc
Jewish Communal FundNY25.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Otzar Hachesed Foundation Trust · Dlh Foundation Inc · Dinim Foundation · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · Md Friedman Family Foundation · The Ezra Charitable Trust · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Farbenblum Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Farbenblum 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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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