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Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc at a glance

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Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc

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.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0173% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$398kCivil Rights$50kHealth$44kInternational$34kArts & Culture$22kPhilanthropy$14kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$1,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$949k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHAARE ZION OF GREAT NECK$57,741
COLEL CHABAD$16,100
AIPAC$16,000
NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY$13,300
Individual grant recipient$7,902
NE'EMAN FOUNDATION USA$7,500
THE GIVING BACK FUND$5,000
YAD YOSEF TORAH CENTER - BIRKAT YAACOV$5,000
SAFE FOUNDATION$3,600
BEIS MIDRASH OF QUEENS$3,600
SEPHARDIC SYNAGOGUE$3,500
MAGEN DAVID OF MANHATTAN$2,784
YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK$2,695
Individual grant recipient$2,600
RENEWAL$2,600
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS: $11k → 20%BELEV ECHAD: $1k → 17%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $1k → 20%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
AR
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$524k · 32 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
61

Total granted

$524k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+4%

Still filing today

22%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +11%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +63%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • EF
    ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
—
4
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
9
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
10
The Keren Rachaim Fund
—
11
Jewish Life Foundation
—
12
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hadassah Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lung Cancer Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 105 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHAARE ZION OF GREAT NECK CORP: $210,148 · OtherSHAARE ZION OF GREAT NECK CORPCOLEL CHABAD: $51,700 · OtherCOLEL CHABADAIPAC: $49,595 · OtherAIPACOHEL YITZCHAK OF ALLENHURST: $30,003 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · Other+77 more: $245,032 · Other+77 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $9,500 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $7,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $2,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $1,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesCHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,281 · PhilanthropyTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $1,501 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $180 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $6,500 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $2,600 · HealthNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $1,000 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $501 · HealthMAGEN DAVID OF MANHATTAN: $3,441 · ReligionAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,960 · ReligionSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1,084 · ReligionNORTH SHORE MIKVAH ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · ReligionBerit Shalom Inc: $500 · Religion
Other$637,478International$21,400Arts & Culture$15,000Human Services$13,200Philanthropy$11,462Health$10,601Religion$7,985

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 budgetNORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY: $16,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FOUNDATION INC: $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,281 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRENEWAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,960 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1,084 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SHORE MIKVAH ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT MORESHET YERUSHALAYIM INC: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerit Shalom Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $104 over 1y, 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 NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Beis Midrash of Queens ↗
  • Who funds MAGEN DAVID OF MANHATTAN ↗

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 FundThe Celebrity Foundat…E R G FoundationThe Mamiye Foundation…Chehebar Family Found…The Mermelstein Found…Samuel & Mollie Jemal…The Howard Hoffman & …Ralph J Harary Founda…The Setton FoundationHerbert & Yvonne Miss…Jack H Ashkenazie Fou…
Jewish Communal FundNY33.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Celebrity Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · The Mamiye Foundation Inc · Chehebar Family Foundation · The Mermelstein Foundation · Samuel & Mollie Jemal Foundation Co Jem Realty · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Herbert & Yvonne Missry Foundation · Jack H Ashkenazie 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 Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc 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 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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