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A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc

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.

$977k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.1MEducation$960kHealth$602kInternational$465kHuman Services$82kArts & Culture$41kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $412k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$72,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARKAI FOUNDATION$500,000
THE UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS$100,000
CONGREGATION BETH TORAH$100,000
CHAI LIFELINE$72,500
SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC$72,000
NEW YORK CANCER CENTER INC$67,000
JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC$32,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ARAM SOBA RA'ANANA$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $72k → 20%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.
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.
04

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 A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 76%.

A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$2.7M
$438k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • BF
    BARKAI FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $950k · revenue +14%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +58%
  • SC
    SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • MD
    MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH
    one grant, 2021 · $161k
  • AF
    American Friends of EshelIncgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +40%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue -45%
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
Sephardic Foundation for Torah Studies Inc

To promote, encourage, foster and advance the teaching and study of the sephardic jewish religion.

Education
2
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
7
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
8
Torah Ore Seminary

To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.

Education
9
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
10
Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates

Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution

Religion
11
The Genesis Foundation Inc

To educate jewish people about their heritage

—
12
Canfei Nesharim

To provide education relating to the connection between jewish traditional teachings and the importance of protecting the environment. to provide educational programs for synagogues and jewish schools.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sephardic Community Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Lung Cancer Research Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 29 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $950,000 · EducationBARKAI FOUNDATION INCAmerican Friends of EshelInc: $75,000 · EducationAmerican Friends of EshelInc+1 more: $10,000 · EducationYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH: $326,000 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSHUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA: $200,000 · OtherUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGAT…CONGREGATION BETH TORAH: $200,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH TORAHMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH: $161,000 · OtherMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT SHAREI: $36,000 · Other+8 more: $65,900 · Other+8 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $468,500 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INCNew York Cancer Center Inc: $100,000 · HealthNew York Cancer Cent…+3 more: $18,200 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISR…SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $100,000 · ReligionJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $32,000 · ReligionTHE RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP: $25,000 · ReligionOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $7,500 · ReligionSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $41,000 · Arts & CultureARAM SOBA RAANANA INC: $18,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,035,000Other$988,900Health$586,700International$375,000Religion$164,500Human Services$72,000Arts & Culture$59,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $950,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $468,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Cancer Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of EshelInc: $75,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $72,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOOK TRUST INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARAM SOBA RAANANA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGENESIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMHA ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMt Sinai Health Care Foundation: $3,200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY21.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Celebrity Foundation Inc · Joe & Eileen Sutton Family Foundation · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation · Haddad Brands Family Foundation · The Dweck and Rahmey Family Foundation · The Mamiye Foundation Inc · David J Beyda Memorial Foundation Inc · The Maj Franco Family Charitable Foundation

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 A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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 29 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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