· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of EDDIE & SHAWNA AZAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $37,397 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,500 |
| BARKAI FOUNDATION INC | $21,600 |
| MORRIS FRANCO CANCER CENTER | $20,250 |
| SBH-SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM | $10,720 |
| SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND | $10,360 |
| SPECIAL CHILDRENS CENTER | $6,701 |
| UJA | $5,501 |
| SHUVI NAFSHI FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| HILLEL YESHIVA | $2,500 |
| MITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,226 |
| RENEWAL | $1,095 |
| BIKE4CHAI | $1,002 |
| SIMHA ORGANIZATION INC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
36 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GTGATEWAY TO THE FUTURE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +19%
- TSTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER4× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +88%
- SNShuvi Nafshi Foundation INC4× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SMSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INCone grant, 2024 · $29k · revenue +11%
- BTBETH TORAH CONGREGATIONone grant, 2020 · $26k
- NYNew York Cancer Center Incone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Charitable work to help people in need
Religious School
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
To help and support children with rare sybfromes and disorders and their families. to help and support children victimized and traumatized by terror attacks and thier families.
Religious Teaching
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds New York Cancer Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Shuvi Nafshi Foundation INC ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIMHA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Eddie & Shawna Azar Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Special Children Center — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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