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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 FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
4%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$750
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$659k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$50k9%
FY202323$47k4%
FY202224$46k4%
FY202126$15k19%
FY202022$15k18%
FY201926$19k15%
FY201822$23k27%
FY201729$33kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$160kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$14kPhilanthropy$11kRecreation & Sports$9kHuman Services$9kHousing & Shelter$4kInternational$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$8,00080%
Center for Food Action in New Jersey$6,25080%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$6,00060%
Bergen Family Center$4,36050%
Alpine Learning Group Education Program Inc$4,11080%
The Arnold Gold Foundation$3,50070%
Family Promise of Bergen County$3,00040%
Center for Hope and Safety Inc$2,33060%
Play for Pink Inc$2,07540%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,80050%
Temple Emanuel$1,6002n/a
Happiness Is Camping$1,50030%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$1,25010%
Demarest Nature Center Association$6004n/a
Lubavitch on the Palisades$5001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$36010%
Ycs Foundation Inc$18010%
Tenafly Fireman's Association Inc$10010%
American Heart Association Inc$10010%
Tenafly Volunteer Ambulance Association Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 Fireman's Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenafly Volunteer Ambulance Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

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

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.

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About Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc

How much does Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc give?
Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $50,324 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (64%), Religion (10%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc ($8k), Center for Food Action in New Jersey ($6k), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($6k).
Does Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kaplen Foundation, Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation, Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund.
Where is Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc based?
Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 52 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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