· Private foundation
Emet Vemunah Sam & Samantha Sasson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of EMET VEMUNAH SAM & SAMANTHA SASSON FAMILY 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $578k
- $250k+1 grant · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BET MEDRASH GADOL ATERET TORAH | $325,500 |
| YAD YOSEF | $242,053 |
| VARIOUS OTHER CHARITIES | $123,143 |
| YESHIVAT ATERET TORAH | $113,000 |
| CONGREGATION OHR MEIR | $100,000 |
| YESHIVA KOL YAAKOV | $36,000 |
| SHORE AREA MIKVAH | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,101 |
| FRIENDS OF AHAVAT SHALOM | $27,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| CONGREGATION MESHECH CHOCHMA | $24,000 |
| BET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE | $15,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| CONGREGATION TZAMRA INC | $10,000 |
| SYNAGOUGE OF DEAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- SCSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC5× · 2019–2023 · $304k · revenue +67%
- SMSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC2× · 2022–2023 · $99k · revenue +31%
- BYBET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- STSEPHARDIC TORAH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $22k
- YOYESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +94%
- CBCONGREGATION BNEI YESHIVAone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…
Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.
Religious Teaching
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Religious School
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bet Yaakov Oz Vehadar Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ilan High School. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 64 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 SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AHAVATH SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds BET YAAKOV OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMHA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS OHR HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds GEMAH BET YISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM 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 · The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation · Mary & Abe Sutton Foundation · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Dweck and Rahmey Family 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 Emet Vemunah Sam & Samantha Sasson Family 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.
- Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah Inc — 28% of income from government
- Bet Yaakov of the Jersey Shore Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% 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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