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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+23 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| NLI USA 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 |
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 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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 23% of all-years giving ($29M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Russell Berrie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +16%- TSTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA7× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +1%
- RCRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- BIBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.8M · revenue +31%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2.0M
- MMIGALone grant, 2018 · $500k
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.
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…
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.
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.
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,…
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…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
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.
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…
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…
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
241 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. 241 of the 305 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- 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 CHRONICLE OF A PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BERGEN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Russell Berrie Foundation 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.
- 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
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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