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The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Michele M and Lawrence R Beyer Family Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE JOSEPH AND FLORENCE MANDEL FAMILY- MICHELE M AND LAWRENCE R BEYER FAMILY FUND’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.

02FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $930k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
$18,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$165M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEYER FAMILY FUND$1,900,000
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami$500,000
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami$250,000
University of Miami$250,000
Pine Crest Preparatory School$153,667
Cornell University$100,000
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County$100,000
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland$100,000
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County$100,000
Oxbridge Academy$100,000
Friendship Circle of Cleveland$80,000
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland$70,000
Heights Arts Collaborative$59,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine$50,000
Zecher Avrohom Inc$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Celebrity Adventures Inc: $32k → 11%Trip of a Lifetime: $1k → 9%Celebrity Adventures Inc: $32k → 11%Trip of a Lifetime: $1k → 9%Kingsbridge Heights Community Center: $15k → 28%Kingsbridge Heights Community Center: $10k → 28%Kingsbridge Heights Community Center: $10k → 28%Kingsbridge Heights Community Center: $10k → 28%MorseLife Foundation: $25k → 11%MorseLife Foundation: $10k → 11%MorseLife Foundation: $10k → 11%MorseLife Foundation: $10k → 11%Young Adult Institute: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
VA
AZ
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 55 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
32

Total granted

$18M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+1%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther

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

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +70%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +48%
  • PC
    PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $561k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $602k · revenue -45%
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +117%
  • TP
    The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
3
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Religious Organizati…Arts Education & PerformanceSouth Florida Community Ser…Healthcare Systems and Serv…Disease Research and Advoca…New York City Civic Organiz…Philanthropic Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr20%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr20%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,217

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.

04the grantee network

81 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 104 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
51/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BEYER FAMILY FUND — $10,727,000 · OtherBEYER FAMILY FUNDHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $920,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND+39 more — $1,483,773 · Other+39 moreINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC — $1,515,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPO…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $602,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HAT…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURS…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIV…HEIGHTS ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $208,986 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $180,400 · Arts & Culture+28 more — $842,050 · Arts & Culture+28 moreUniversity of Miami — $800,000 · EducationUniversity…PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $561,001 · EducationPINE CREST…CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $137,000 · EducationCLEVELAND …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $120,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…Cornell University — $100,000 · EducationCornell Un…+8 more — $138,500 · Education+8 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $505,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $75,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $238,000 · ReligionZECHER AVROHOM INC — $175,000 · ReligionDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $275,000 · HealthBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $100,000 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · HealthWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $161,400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $84,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $71,000 · International+1 more — $500 · International
Other$13,130,773Arts & Culture$3,998,436Education$1,856,501Philanthropy$800,000Religion$413,000Health$400,000International$316,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC — $1,515,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $920,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $602,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $561,001 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $505,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC — $238,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetHEIGHTS ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $208,986 over 4y, 18% of budgetZEITGEIST — $182,820 over 3y, 30% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $180,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZECHER AVROHOM INC — $175,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $161,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $137,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDD FOUNDATION — $104,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $84,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPACES — $82,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $71,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT — $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE PTRS — $70,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK INC — $69,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC — $64,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $56,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetENCORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bascom Little Fund Co Andrew L Fabens III · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Michele M and Lawrence R Beyer Family Fund 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 140%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Michele M and Lawrence R Beyer Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Michele M and Lawrence R Beyer Family Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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