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The Russell Berrie Foundation at a glance

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The Russell Berrie 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.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
174
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$31MInternational$26MHealth$15MReligion$13MPhilanthropy$11MHuman Services$6.4MScience & Tech$4.2MCommunity Improvement$2.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 174 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $144k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+23 grants · $10M
$30,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$158M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEREN SHITUF TORMIM (KESHET)$1,275,000
THE SHEBA FUND FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND RESEARCH$750,000
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY (RA)$690,116
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY (RA)$690,116
THE SHEBA FUND FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND RESEARCH$600,000
THE SHEBA FUND FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND RESEARCH$600,000
NLI USA INC$500,000
CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC$500,000
Individual grant recipient$450,000
GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC$400,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$375,000
Individual grant recipient$350,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$350,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$333,123
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$310,925
02The need
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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: 77% of grant dollars ($96M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($29M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $6.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $75k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $90k → 11%AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY: $50k → 13%AMERICA'S GROW A ROW INC: $40k → 4%NEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE: $250k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $155k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $45k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $65k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $147k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $45k → 11%THE AFYA FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $120k → 16%IMPACT CUBED: $60k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $100k → 16%IMPACT CUBED: $60k → 11%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $50k → 14%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $55k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $94k → 16%IMPACT CUBED: $55k → 11%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $50k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $85k → 16%IMPACT CUBED: $50k → 11%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $50k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $80k → 16%SISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $35k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $75k → 16%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $1.2M → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $43k → 16%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $1.1M → 7%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $174k → 7%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $150k → 7%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $100k → 7%JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $50k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $41k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 17%NEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S H: $55k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $111k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $36k → 7%COUNCIL OF JEWISH EMIGRE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS: $93k → 17%GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $400k → 7%GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $80k → 7%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $60k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $45k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $45k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT OF LOWER MANHATTAN: $35k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
HI
LA
GA
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FL

Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($29M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$29M · 61 grants
Canada$15k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Russell Berrie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Russell Berrie Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 138 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

138 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

138
120

Total granted

$75M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthReligionOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +16%
  • TS
    THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +1%
  • RC
    RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BI
    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.8M · revenue -1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • M
    MIGAL
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
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
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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2
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
3
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
4
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
5
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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10
Israel-America Academic Exchange

Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…

International
11
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
12
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Bergen Hatzalah Emergency Medical Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

241 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. 241 of the 305 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)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
234/241
Grantees still filing
162/241
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,530,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE: $5,065,000 · OtherSHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTEBEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGN JERUSALEM: $4,275,000 · OtherBEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGN JERUSALE…COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL: $4,057,655 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICALBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $2,800,000 · OtherBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INCSTART UP NATION CENTRAL: $2,760,000 · OtherSTART UP NATION CENTRALBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY (RA): $2,692,667 · OtherBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY (RA)THE SHEBA FUND FOR HEALTH SERVICES AND RESEARCH: $2,100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,986,500 · Other+80 more: $15,220,733 · Other+80 moreINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $5,128,750 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERNAT…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $4,937,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish J…THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $4,777,500 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN IN…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $4,144,579 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR …+17 more: $4,558,167 · International+17 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $8,789,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $7,984,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWM…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $680,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $1,800,708 · Philanthropy+12 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,834,845 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF C…RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,798,136 · EducationRAMAPO COLLEGE FO…NLI USA INC: $1,150,000 · EducationNLI USA INCCAUCUS EDUCATIONAL CORP: $1,065,000 · EducationCAUCUS EDUCATIONA…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · Education+19 more: $2,181,000 · Education+19 moreJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $2,804,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $932,500 · Human ServicesGREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $290,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT CUBED: $290,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $255,000 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $240,000 · Human Services+15 more: $1,341,500 · Human ServicesHOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,040,529 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,500,000 · HealthBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $760,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 · Health+8 more: $481,231 · HealthThe Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc: $870,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $276,500 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $225,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $210,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $150,000 · ReligionNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $150,000 · ReligionJewish Heritage Programs: $80,000 · Religion+9 more: $388,000 · Religion
Other$47,487,555International$23,545,996Philanthropy$19,253,708Education$18,828,981Human Services$6,903,000Health$6,281,760Religion$2,349,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,834,845 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $8,789,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $7,984,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $5,128,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $4,937,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $4,777,500 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $4,144,579 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,798,136 over 7y, 19% of budgetHOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,040,529 over 7y, 28% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $2,804,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $2,800,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $1,155,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetNLI USA INC: $1,150,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCAUCUS EDUCATIONAL CORP: $1,065,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC: $932,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc: $870,000 over 7y, 71% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $800,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $774,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $760,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $680,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $672,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $610,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $570,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $510,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetGREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC: $466,667 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $380,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $375,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC: $357,900 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERHOOD OF SALAAM SHALOM: $290,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetIMPACT CUBED: $290,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCITY GREEN INC: $290,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $276,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $255,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY YMCA STATE ALLIANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $245,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $240,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $232,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NLI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAUCUS EDUCATIONAL CORP ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Columbia Bank Foundat…FjcJewish Communal FundThe Shimon Ben Joseph…Henry & Marilyn Taub …Community Foundation …Jewish Federation of …Pseg Foundation IncNash Family FoundationThe Provident Bank Fo…Jewish Community Foun…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA49.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Pseg Foundation Inc · Nash Family Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ

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 Russell Berrie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Russell Berrie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • City Green Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Greater Bergen Community Action Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Diabetes Foundation Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Women's Rights Information Center: 16% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
  • Adler Aphasia Center: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Center On the Palisades: 4% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Ymca State Alliance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Drew University: 0% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 305 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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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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