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Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$162k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
41
Organizations funded FY2024
54%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,095
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,397
Organizations funded a year
8 to 41
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving25$162k20%
FY202441$188k54%
FY202331$122k39%
FY202235$131k63%
FY202135$100k100%
FY20208$53kn/a
70% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$247kHealth$146kEducation$107kHuman Services$40kFood & Nutrition$35kInternational$16kPhilanthropy$3kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
AR
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barkai Foundation Inc$107,26450%
Congregation Beth Torah$60,7423n/a
Yeshivah of Flatbush$36,8193n/a
Gateway to the Future Inc$35,50046%
The Sephardic Food Fund Inc$32,64040%
Sephardic Mikveh of Midwood Inc$28,80012%
New York Cancer Center Inc$22,36010%
The Special Children Center$10,38240%
Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC$8,00140%
Mitzvah Man Foundation Corp$7,00050%
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All grantees of Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barkai Foundation Inc$107,26450%
Congregation Beth Torah$60,7423n/a
Yeshivah of Flatbush$36,8193n/a
Gateway to the Future Inc$35,50046%
The Sephardic Food Fund Inc$32,64040%
Sephardic Mikveh of Midwood Inc$28,80012%
New York Cancer Center Inc$22,36010%
The Special Children Center$10,38240%
Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC$8,00140%
Mitzvah Man Foundation Corp$7,00050%
Congregation Yad Yosef$5,0001n/a
Yad Yosef$2,8002n/a
Sephardic Community Youth Center Inc$2,60010%
Chesed Lavraham$2,0001n/a
Congregation Ohel Yitzchok$2,0001n/a
Simha Organization Inc$2,00020%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$1,84510%
Larchwood Synagogue Inc$1,3611n/a
Safe Foundation Inc$1,00220%
Nefesh Yehudie Inc$1,00010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$1,00010%
Charidy Global Foundation$86120%
Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah$7201n/a
Mesivta Netzach Hatorah$6131n/a
Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc$54030%
The Kesher Organization Inc$54020%
Yeshiva Ohr Torah$5001n/a
Yad Ezra V'Shulamit$40420%
Ahava Baby Inc$36020%
Chasdei Esther$3601n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$36010%
Israel Medical Fund Corp$36010%
Kids of Courage Inc$18010%
Torat Shraga Inc$18010%
Ohr Halacha Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($376k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarkai Foundation Inc: $107,264 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGateway to the Future Inc: $35,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetThe Sephardic Food Fund Inc: $32,640 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSephardic Mikveh of Midwood Inc: $28,800 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNew York Cancer Center Inc: $22,360 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Special Children Center: $10,382 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC: $8,001 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMitzvah Man Foundation Corp: $7,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSephardic Community Youth Center Inc: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimha Organization Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $1,845 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Foundation Inc: $1,002 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNefesh Yehudie Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharidy Global Foundation: $861 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva Keter Torah Inc: $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kesher Organization Inc: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYad Ezra V'Shulamit: $404 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAhava Baby Inc: $360 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Medical Fund Corp: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids of Courage Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTorat Shraga Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Halacha Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Jack Adjmi Family Foundation IncNY42.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Haddad Brands Family Foundation · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · The Victor Azrak & Sons Family Foundation Inc · Isaac J Chehebar Charitable Trust Isaac J Chehebar Trustee · The Dweck and Rahmey Family Foundation · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · Jack D Cohen Foundation Inc · Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation · E R G 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.

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About Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation

How much does Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation give?
Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $162,462 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Health (19%), Education (14%).
Who are Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Barkai Foundation Inc ($107k), Congregation Beth Torah ($61k), Yeshivah of Flatbush ($37k).
Does Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation 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 Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc.
Where is Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation based?
Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

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 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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