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FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC

FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,375,000 to it, the largest being NASH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,700,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$6.4M
Net assets
$869k
18/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs Inc does

Mission

Funds collected to support the mission of bezalel academy of arts and design jerusalem israel.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Bezalel academy - support for the bezalel academy of arts and design.

    $427,703 spentof which $412,255 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $427,703.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.0M) Expenses 100 ($9.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 77 ($6.9M) Expenses 68 ($6.3M) Net assets 115 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 25 ($2.2M) Expenses 42 ($3.9M) Net assets 43 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 50 ($4.5M) Expenses 51 ($4.7M) Net assets 36 ($846k)2021 Revenue 251 ($23M) Expenses 242 ($22M) Net assets 86 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 4 ($320k) Expenses 6 ($574k) Net assets 32 ($740k)2023 Revenue 55 ($4.9M) Expenses 60 ($5.6M) Net assets 51 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 31 ($2.8M) Expenses 28 ($2.5M) Net assets 37 ($869k)
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Revenue (31)Expenses (28)Net assets (37)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $8.7M to $4.5M (−49%).

$9.8M
$8.7M
$4.5M
$2.3M
$2.0M
$1.7M
$1.2M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$228k
’17
$611k
’18
−$1.7M
’19
−$162k
’20
$222k
’21
−$254k
’22
−$618k
’23
$261k
’24
1.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Ilan Kaufthal

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3430201717161517
Joined·+2+1+0+0+0+3+2
No longer listed·61130140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $89k → $1.2M.

11 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC’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

FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

34% 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 FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC.

27%
largest funder
72%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 66% · 2019 65% · 2020 67% · 2021 54% · 2022 46% · 2023 46% — 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

33% of FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC?
FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,375,000 to it, the largest being NASH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,700,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $6,375,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC?
NASH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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