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Barbara & Edward Schlussel FDN Inc at a glance

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Barbara & Edward Schlussel FDN 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$127kReligion$116kHealth$58kInternational$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kEducation$33kFood & Nutrition$31kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$742k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$40,000
Jewish National Fund$20,000
Pardess Center for Jewish Life$5,000
HOffberger Institute of Text Study$5,000
Anshei Emuna Congregation$4,300
Individual grant recipient$1,800
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%KAVOD: $1k → 17%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $180 → 10%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE: $155 → 13%BNEI OLAM: $180 → 20%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $250 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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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 Barbara & Edward Schlussel FDN Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Barbara & Edward Schlussel FDN Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$332k · 32 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
87

Total granted

$332k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+25%

Still filing today

41%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthReligionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +126%
  • SI
    Sharsheret Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +187%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • HH
    HUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -12%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc

Friends of united hatzalah, inc .(fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. fouh focuses the majority of its support…

Arts & Culture
8
The Jerusalem Connection
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9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
Jewish Life Foundation
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11
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hatt Foundation Inc. 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

53 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. 53 of the 126 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/53
Grantees still filing
43/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $85,010 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONPARDESS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE INC: $29,335 · OtherPARDESS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE INCJewish National Fund: $26,000 · OtherJewish National FundCOLEL CHABAD: $15,054 · OtherAMUDIM: $14,000 · Other+81 more: $169,221 · Other+81 moreMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $23,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEW…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIE…JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $7,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUN…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,495 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,510 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $12,755 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $12,200 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,755 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $4,800 · International+2 more: $1,005 · InternationalSharsheret Inc: $15,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $12,500 · HealthPROJECT YECHI INC: $4,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $1,250 · Health+6 more: $3,700 · HealthL CHAIM CENTER FOR INSPIRED LIVING INC: $8,600 · ReligionSHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $5,000 · ReligionTHE HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE FOR TEXT STUDY INC D/B/A ALEPH BETA: $2,000 · ReligionCORE INC: $1,000 · Religion+2 more: $380 · ReligionYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $4,100 · EducationFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD: $3,000 · EducationYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $132 · EducationKAVOD: $1,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $250 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $180 · Human ServicesUNCHAINED AT LAST INC: $180 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $155 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 · Human Services
Other$338,620Philanthropy$59,505International$39,515Health$36,450Religion$16,980Education$8,232Human Services$1,865

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 budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $12,755 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $12,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,755 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetL CHAIM CENTER FOR INSPIRED LIVING INC: $8,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $4,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $4,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT YECHI INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,495 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOFFBERGER INSTITUTE FOR TEXT STUDY INC D/B/A ALEPH BETA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED WITH ISRAEL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKAVOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVassar Brothers Medical Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCHAINED AT LAST INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerizon Inc: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpanish River Concerts Inc: $150 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.

  • Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds L CHAIM CENTER FOR INSPIRED LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds HUNTER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT YECHI INC ↗

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 FundJewish Federation of …Mutual of America Fou…The Slomo and Cindy S…Combined Jewish Phila…The Ojc FundAmerican Gift FundNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Mutual of America Foundation · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Ojc Fund · American Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barbara & Edward Schlussel FDN Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara & Edward Schlussel FDN Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get 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 · 0–30%
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 126 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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