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Altschul Fund at a glance

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Altschul Fund

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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$10kEducation$4kInternational$3kCivil Rights$2kFood & Nutrition$1kHealth$817Arts & Culture$269Human Services$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA$5,065
Individual grant recipient$500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$500
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$360
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$350
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$350
CITY HARVEST$350
VARIOUS CHARITIES$346
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$340
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$340
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$300
BARNARD COLLEGE$250
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$250
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL$250
MIDDLE EAST FORUM OF FALMOUTH$250
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 (FY23–23, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FOOTSTEPS: $250 → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 18 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$43k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $985 · revenue +1%
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700 · revenue +22%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700 · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • HC
    HUNTER COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL PTA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +11%
  • FI
    FOOTSTEPS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250 · revenue +20%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSON SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $250
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
12
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for New York City; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS: $25,513 · OtherVARIOUSTEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA: $9,585 · OtherTEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA+18 more: $5,269 · Other+18 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,100 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $985 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $720 · InternationalHUNTER COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL PTA INC: $1,500 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $250 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $250 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $250 · EducationEXODUS SCHOOL: $100 · EducationSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $700 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $269 · Arts & CultureCITY HARVEST INC: $700 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $200 · Food & NutritionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $550 · Civil RightsVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $200 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $114 · Health
Other$40,367International$2,805Education$2,350Arts & Culture$969Food & Nutrition$900Civil Rights$550Health$314

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNTER COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL PTA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $985 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $269 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $114 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $100 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Altschul Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Altschul Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 35 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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