· Private foundation
The Murray & Shirley Berkowitz Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MECHINA OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $49,000 |
| various charitable institutions | $27,660 |
| Yeshiva Elementary School | $25,000 |
| MIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $19,500 |
| I Am Jewish Inc | $15,000 |
| YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE JEWISH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CONGERATION YL SOUTH 8 | $9,000 |
| Cong Chasdei Dpershischa | $8,000 |
| Friendship Circle of Miami Inc | $7,800 |
| SULAM LLOCHAMIM INC | $6,000 |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | $5,000 |
| Cong Beir Yakov | $5,000 |
| ADIREI HATORAH OF BETH MEDRASH GOVO | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- VCvarious charitable institutions3× · 2022–2025 · $120k
- MOMESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +15%
- YEYESHIVA ELEMENTARY INC2× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BMBeth Medrash Govohaone grant, 2022 · $14k
- NYNETZACH YAAKOVone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +6%
- KIKOLLEL INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $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.
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
High school, offering academic classes in english, history, math, and science, as well as a full array of courses in judaic studies and co-curricular activities such as physical education and classes in the arts.
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
Religious Teaching
To provide quality jewish education for teens and young adults by operating a private high school for the advancement of jewish and secular studies.
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
To operate a yeshiva (religious school)to promote and encourage the study of torah and other jewish works and teachings. to stimulate and foster the education and religious development of young jewish men of high school age. to provide a…
Teach jewish religious topics and expansion of biblical and judaic knowleldge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Elementary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friendship Circle of Miami Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 24 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.
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: The Ojc Fund · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Murray & Shirley Berkowitz Foundation Inc 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.
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- Yeshiva Elementary 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.
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