New Jersey · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,463 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($817,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $13k
What American Friends of Beit Midrash Harel does
Mission
We aim to inspire and prepare tomorrow's communal leaders to serve as agents for change within a context of continuity in the Jewish Tradition. The participants in American Friends of Beit Midrash Harel programs will feel modern sensibilities have finally been brought into the religious discourse. Our innovative programs combine an in-depth study of primary and secondary sources of Jewish law as well as public policy. Additionally, the equability between men and women in the study of Jewish sources has not always been given, our organization finds that a value that we hold deeply. The forms that we expect the education to take place are chiefly through lectures, workshops, conferences, and curriculum advising and development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During 2023 Harold Hefter continued to giving lectures and speaking at conferences throughout the United States. Additionally he hosted virtual events and continued writing. Along those lines he also met with current and future Jewish Communal leaders. He participated in conferences and both formal and informal meetings dedicated to furthering the stated mission of educating thought leaders and the laity in faith communities promoting the study Jewish Tradition in ways that modern people will meaningful. This was also accomplished by providing grants to to Beit Midrash Harel, an organization organized as a not-for-profit entity in Israel that is engaged in a similar mission.
$116,849 spentof which $70,000 as grants$111,900 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $116,849.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $174k to $10k (−94%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $78k → $120k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 85% · 2020 84% · 2021 78% · 2022 84% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $305k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $904k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL?
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,463 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($817,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,209,463 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $817,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing