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E David Fischman Scholarship Foundation at a glance

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E David Fischman Scholarship Foundation

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.

$429k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$192k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.5MEducation$663kScience & Tech$133kReligion$109k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
$18,885
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL$192,440
Individual grant recipient$44,867
Individual grant recipient$41,666
Individual grant recipient$29,142
Individual grant recipient$26,287
Individual grant recipient$22,597
Individual grant recipient$18,885
TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL$15,586
Individual grant recipient$15,097
Individual grant recipient$8,167
Individual grant recipient$7,763
LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL$3,897
Individual grant recipient$1,900
Individual grant recipient$450
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $351k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $259k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $240k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $217k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $192k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $171k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $74k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ST PAUL: $35k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $16k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $15k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $15k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $13k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $13k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $13k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $13k → 14%TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $12k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $4k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $4k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $4k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%LUBAVITCH CHEDER DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%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

MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$246k · 4 repeat orgs$325k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$246k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TT
    THE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue -55%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $57k · revenue +16%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2022 · $54k

Funded once

  • NY
    New York University
    one grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +11%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANA
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 24 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,540,095 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATIONTHE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $108,668 · OtherTHE TALMUD TORAH OF ST…YALE UNIVERSITY: $53,671 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $44,867 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient: $41,666 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient: $29,142 · OtherIndividual grant recip…CHABAD ACADEMY INC: $27,167 · OtherCHABAD ACADEMY INCIndividual grant recipient: $26,287 · OtherIndividual grant recip…YALE UNIVERSITY: $25,440 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANA: $23,008 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,597 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,885 · Other+7 more: $55,861 · Other+7 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $192,921 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COL…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $133,421 · EducationPresident and Fello…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $56,543 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSI…New York University: $37,694 · EducationNew York University+1 more: $7,344 · Education
Philanthropy$1,540,095Other$477,259Education$427,923

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 budgetTHE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,540,095 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $192,921 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $133,421 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL: $108,668 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $56,543 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $37,694 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $7,344 over 2y, 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 THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE TALMUD TORAH OF ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization E David Fischman Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E David Fischman Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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.

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 24 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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