· Private foundation
The Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF WEST CENTRAL NJ | $20,550 |
| MESIVTHA TIFERETH JERUSALEM | $15,000 |
| JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $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 |
| CHABAD OF THE SHORE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE TIKVA FUND | $3,000 |
| MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAELETHICS IN THE FIELD | $2,500 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +4%- IIIMPACTISRAEL INC4× · 2019–2023 · $38k · revenue +64%
- ASALEPH SOCIETY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SJSSB JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $28k
- CECONGREGATION ETZ AHAIMone grant, 2019 · $14k
- MCMAKOR CHAIMone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation and 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 152 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 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 ↗
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 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
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 Harriet & George Blank Bella Foundation Ui Dtd 12232008 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.