· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $412k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARKAI FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH TORAH | $100,000 |
| THE UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS | $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 |
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 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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- BFBARKAI FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $950k · revenue +14%
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $469k · revenue +58%
- SCSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- MDMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAHone grant, 2021 · $161k
- AFAmerican Friends of EshelIncgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +40%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue -45%
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.
To promote, encourage, foster and advance the teaching and study of the sephardic jewish religion.
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.
To further jewish education in israel
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
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.
Religious School
Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution
To educate jewish people about their heritage
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sephardic Community Alliance and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 29 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
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 BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds New York Cancer Center Inc ↗
- Who funds American Friends of EshelInc ↗
- Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOOK TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBI SACKS LEGACY CORP ↗
- Who funds ARAM SOBA RAANANA INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Academy ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds SIMHA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation ↗
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: 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
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 A&H Shamah Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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