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The Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008 at a glance

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The Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$366kInternational$210kPhilanthropy$175kEducation$57kHuman Services$30kHealth$18kArts & Culture$8kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF WEST CENTRAL NJ$20,550
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$15,000
MESIVTHA TIFERETH JERUSALEM$15,000
JEWISH NAT'L FUND$12,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$10,000
VILLAGE CHABAD$9,500
Individual grant recipient$8,900
JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW ACADEMY$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
UJA FEDERATION NY$6,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CHABAD OF THE SHORE$5,000
THE TIKVA FUND$3,000
YESH TIKVAH$2,500
SEFARIA$2,500
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 (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $500 → 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

MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$751k · 50 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
71

Total granted

$751k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

40%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +4%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $38k · revenue +64%
  • AS
    ALEPH SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SSB JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • CE
    CONGREGATION ETZ AHAIM
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
  • MC
    MAKOR CHAIM
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
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
5
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
6
The Jerusalem Connection
—
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
12
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Unity Warriors Inc. 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

47 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. 47 of the 152 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
26/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF SHW COUNTIES: $94,750 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SHW COUNTIESMESIVTHA TIFERETH JERUSALEM: $88,500 · OtherMESIVTHA TIFERETH JERUSALEMJEWISH CENTER: $37,303 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $34,800 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF WEST CENTRAL NJ: $34,300 · OtherRABBI PESACH RAYMON YESHIVA: $34,000 · OtherSSB JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $27,500 · OtherBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $24,000 · Other+114 more: $334,540 · Other+114 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $62,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joi…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $48,600 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (K…IMPACTISRAEL INC: $37,916 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INCALEPH SOCIETY INC: $34,000 · InternationalALEPH SOCIETY INCCentral Fund of Israel: $10,000 · International+6 more: $12,600 · International+6 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $26,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAMOT CORP: $3,600 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $3,000 · EducationSEFARIA INC: $2,500 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $2,250 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $400 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250 · Arts & CultureETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $2,000 · ReligionAISH GLOBAL INC: $2,000 · ReligionTORAH LIVE INC: $1,000 · ReligionISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterUNITY WARRIORS INC: $1,800 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$709,693International$205,116Philanthropy$38,500Education$13,750Arts & Culture$5,250Religion$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,300

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 budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $48,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $37,916 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALEPH SOCIETY INC: $34,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $26,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation: $9,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetB NAI B RITH: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAMOT CORP: $3,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Yedidim Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYESH TIKVA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITY WARRIORS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH LIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Hatzoloh: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG ISRAEL OF MARGATE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $150 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.

  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEPH SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS FUND ↗
  • Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
  • Who funds B NAI B RITH ↗

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 FundFjcJewish Community Foun…The Ojc FundJewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…Lefkovits Family Foun…The Lyons Family Foun…
Jewish Communal FundNY34.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Lefkovits Family Foundation · The Lyons Family 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 Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Young Israel of Margate: 3% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Torah Academy of Bergen County: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
7report 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.

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 152 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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