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Clarfeld Family Foundation at a glance

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Clarfeld Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$395k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

91% of Clarfeld Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Clarfeld Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $395k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’18
1
’19
1
’20
4
’21
9
’22
10
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Philanthropy$3.7MInternational$584kHealth$216kArts & Culture$158kAnimals$13kReligion$5kEmployment$2k
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$200,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$50,000
CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC$40,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC$10,000
ONE FUTURE AT A TIME$10,000
ACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS CANCER$5,000
HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC$5,000
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC$2,500
YES SHE CAN INCORPORATED$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $3k → 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $50k → 12%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $3.5M → 10%ONE FUTURE AT A TIME: $30k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY: $25k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10k → 17%CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER: $50k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS CANCER: $5k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $40k → 12%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $64k → 10%ONE FUTURE AT A TIME: $28k → 14%MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WESTCHESTER INC: $10k → 9%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $80k → 17%CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER: $25k → 12%BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $13k → 12%ONE FUTURE AT A TIME: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY: $5k → 9%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%CHAPEL HAVEN INCORPORATED: $25k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $10k → 12%ONE FUTURE AT A TIME: $3k → 14%ACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $10k → 12%TARRYTOWNS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $10k → 12%ACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC: $5k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM INC: $1k → 9%MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3k → 12%YES SHE CAN INCORPORATED: $2k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 84% of Clarfeld Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Clarfeld Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$846k · 6 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$846k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
HealthInternationalArts & CultureEmploymentAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $500k · revenue +19%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $125k · revenue +3%
  • CH
    CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue -14%
  • TR
    TARRYTOWNS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -56%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +41%
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
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
2
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
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
4
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
10
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
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Mental Health of New York Inc F/K/N Mental Health Association of West; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,527,675 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $120,000 · PhilanthropyBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISR…ONE FUTURE AT A TIME: $70,500 · InternationalONE FUTURE AT …+2 more: $13,000 · InternationalCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $80,000 · HealthACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · AnimalsHEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC: $5,000 · OtherTARRYTOWNS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $3,400 · OtherYES SHE CAN INCORPORATED: $2,000 · EmploymentFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM INC: $1,000 · Education
Philanthropy$3,647,675International$583,500Health$215,000Arts & Culture$157,500Animals$12,500Other$8,400Employment$2,000Education$1,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,527,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $120,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FUTURE AT A TIME: $70,500 over 4y, 30% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACCESS PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTARRYTOWNS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $3,400 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYES SHE CAN INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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 FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Clarfeld Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarfeld Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Clarfeld Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Clarfeld Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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