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The Mbs Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Mbs Family Foundation Inc

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.

$188k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$513kEducation$228kArts & Culture$164kHealth$140kInternational$65kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$283k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIBLICAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$30,045
MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM$30,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$25,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$20,000
JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC$20,000
JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS$10,000
OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES$10,000
BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL$10,000
FLAGLER MUSEUM$10,000
CONGREGATION ATERES SHLOIME$5,000
CHABAD OF CLINTON$5,000
FRIENDS OF WIENER LIBRARY$2,500
CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH$2,500
MASBIA$2,500
LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INC$1,800
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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%EBEAUTY COMMUNITY INC: $50 → 8%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$475k · 12 repeat orgs$488k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
25

Total granted

$475k
$479k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MH
    MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +46%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +63%
  • TJ
    THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of United Hatzalah
    one grant, 2019 · $378k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZATAH
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH GENEALOGICAL Sgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +36%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
4
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
5
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
6
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
7
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
American Friends of Rabbinical College Netiv Hadaat Inc

To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem

Education
10
American Friends of Genesis Jerusalem Inc

Support for schools in israel conducting post high school programs in various courses of jewish studies, touring and volunteer work all in israel

International
11
The Jerusalem Connection
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12
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Israel Experience Tide 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

22 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. 22 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Friends of United Hatzalah: $378,000 · OtherFriends of United HatzalahMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $135,000 · OtherMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INCBIBLICAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $78,005 · OtherBIBLICAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYCONGREGATION ATERES SHLOIME: $41,800 · OtherCHABAD AT HAMILTON INC: $35,800 · OtherFLAGLER MUSEUM: $33,900 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZATAH: $31,000 · Other+22 more: $65,898 · Other+22 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $58,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…BETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL: $30,000 · PhilanthropyBETTER FUT…+2 more: $3,600 · PhilanthropyTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC: $28,500 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $20,900 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH GENEALOGICAL S: $10,500 · Arts & CultureDISASTER RELIEF AT WORK INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMASBIA: $6,500 · Food & NutritionIsrael Experience Tide Inc: $3,600 · EducationJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $1,800 · Education
Other$799,403Philanthropy$91,600International$64,400Arts & Culture$50,500Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Food & Nutrition$6,500Education$5,400

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 budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $58,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER FUTURE FOR ISRAEL: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC: $28,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $20,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH GENEALOGICAL S: $10,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetDISASTER RELIEF AT WORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMASBIA: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Experience Tide Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GEN INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEBEAUTY COMMUNITY INC: $50 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Mbs Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mbs Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get 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 · 0–15%
    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 44 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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