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Amy and Mark Shirvan 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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of AMY AND MARK SHIRVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$750
Median grant
2
States reached
$659k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
KAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADES$2,304
SCOPE SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PRO$1,500
THE COMMUNITY CHEST$1,500
ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,500
NJ BEST 529 FBO CHLOE HIGGINS$1,000
THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION$1,000
BERGEN FAMILY CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW YORK$1,000
SCOTT HIGGINS GO FUND ME$1,000
THE ALPINE LEARNING GROUP$750
FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY$750
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YCS FOUNDATION: $180 → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $1k → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $1k → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $1k → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $1k → 7%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 7%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 7%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 7%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $750 → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $500 → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $500 → 7%THE CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $500 → 7%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $360 → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $750 → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $500 → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $360 → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $360 → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $180 → 7%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $180 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$243k · 37 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
13

Total granted

$243k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+33%

Still filing today

30%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Human ServicesHealthInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +2%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +249%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -51%
  • F
    FASPE
    one grant, 2021 · $750
  • SS
    SCOPE SUMMER CAMP OPPORT PROMOTE ED
    one grant, 2017 · $625

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
3
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
12
Central Jersey Blood Center Inc

See schedule o for complete mission statement.cjbc was founded with a vision to save lives by providing safe, high quality blood products and services to patients in need. entrusted to collect, process and distribute this priceless life…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr21%25%20–35yr14%50%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr21%6%20–35yr14%74%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
11%
2,757/26,131

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.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $99,805 · OtherENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATIONTHE ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL MEDICAL CNTR — $36,840 · OtherTHE ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL MEDICAL CNTRKAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADES — $22,442 · OtherKAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADES+38 more — $52,195 · Other+38 moreCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY — $6,250 · Human ServicesBERGEN FAMILY CENTER — $4,360 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC — $2,330 · Human Services+1 more — $180 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $8,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,800 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $6,000 · Food & NutritionALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $4,110 · EducationFAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterPLAY FOR PINK INC — $2,075 · Crime & Legal
Other$211,282Human Services$13,120Health$9,900Food & Nutrition$6,000Education$4,110Housing & Shelter$3,000Crime & Legal$2,075

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY — $6,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBERGEN FAMILY CENTER — $4,360 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $4,110 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC — $2,330 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $2,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPINESS IS CAMPING — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYCS FOUNDATION INC — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENAFLY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENAFLY FIREMAN'S ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
  • Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER
  • Who funds ALPINE LEARNING GROUP EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds HAPPINESS IS CAMPING
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM

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.

The Kaplen FoundationNJ17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kaplen Foundation · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Beer Family Foundation Inc · Owens Group Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Amy and Mark Shirvan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • Center for Hope and Safety Inc69% of income from government
  • Bergen Family Center25% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Amy and Mark Shirvan 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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