The Bezalel Foundation
Tulsa, OK · EIN 05-0578856. Reported 53 grants totalling $11.5M to 42 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Bezalel Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $8,110,267. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $8,110,267 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Warwick, RI | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanguard Charitable Fund | Warwick, RI | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds | New York, NY | $220,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Houston Law Foundation | Houston, TX | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Kolot Inc | New York, NY | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc | Tulsa, OK | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Emery Weiner School | Houston, TX | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Houston Law Foundation | Houston, OK | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Law and Social Policy | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Beyond Borders Inc | Norristown, PA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Houston | Houston, TX | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Houston Hillel Inc the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project Kesher | New York, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $44,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Creating Hope International | Dearborn, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| King Baudouin Foundation (donor Advised Fund) | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington Office on Latin America | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Avodah the Jewish Service Corps | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charities Aid Foundation of America Aka Caf America | Alexandria, VA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charities Aid Foundation of America | Alexandria, VA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Myraid USA Inc King Baudouin Foundation Aka Kbfus (daf) | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My Connect Community | Houston, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington Office on Latin America Aka Wola | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Creating Hope International Aka Chi Dba Sakena Fund | Dearborn, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights | Alameda, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Emery Weiner School Foundation | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Congregation Beth Yeshurun | Houston, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Child Abuse Network Inc | Tulsa, OK | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Primary School | East Palo Alto, CA | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Tristesse Grief Center | Tulsa, OK | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| A Better Childhood Inc | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equal Justice Center | Austin, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope for Henry Foundation | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tulsa Congregation B'nai Emunah | Tulsa, OK | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mainsprings Janada L Batchelor Foundation for Children | Tulsa, OK | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dwight Hall at Yale | New Haven, CT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emancipation Economic Development Council | Houston, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coalition of Immokalee Workers | Immokalee, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clarehouse Inc | Tulsa, OK | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
11 of 42 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 20%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $160,000 | $80,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $850,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $850,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 3 | $9,610,267 | $1,000,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
71% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Bezalel Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 699, Tulsa, OK, 74101. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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