· Private foundation
The Mario & Lilian Berkowitz Private 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $37,460 |
| CHAZAK GLOBAL INC | $16,000 |
| NESS 26 INC | $11,008 |
| OHR HATORAH YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL | $8,350 |
| TOV INC | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,591 |
| AJDUT ISRAEL INC | $3,000 |
| PRESIDENTIAL SYNAGOGUE | $2,192 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $1,927 |
| K SPACE AVENTURA | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $860 |
| MAGEN DAVID SYNAGOGUE | $388 |
| Individual grant recipient | $378 |
| KOLLEL ZICHRON MICHOEL | $371 |
| HELPING HANDS FOOD | $371 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($225k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($28k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $180) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($28k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 35 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $77k
- N2NESS 26 INC3× · 2022–2024 · $40k
- KSK SPACE AVENTURA3× · 2022–2024 · $14k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $24k
- COCHABAD OF PEMBROKE PINESone grant, 2023 · $17k
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF PEMBROKE PINES INCone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
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.
publish religious books
Religious Teaching
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
Religious School
The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NESS 26 INC ↗
- Who funds OHR Hatorah Yeshiva High School Inc ↗
- Who funds AJDUT ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NETIVE EZRA CORP ↗
- Who funds TORAH LEARNING RESOURCES LTD ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMERGENCY MEDCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Culture High School Inc ↗
- Who funds TorahAnytimeCom Inc ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Chehebar Family Foundation · The Diesel Foundation Inc · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Ezra Charitable Trust · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mario & Lilian Berkowitz Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mario & Lilian Berkowitz Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
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