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Helen and Jacob Shaham Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Helen and Jacob Shaham Charitable 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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$9.1MInternational$505kEducation$117kHuman Services$105kReligion$33kPhilanthropy$15kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.0M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NICKLAUS CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC$2,000,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$1,000,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$200,000
ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL$100,000
TEMPLE BETH AM$1,800
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 (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%LARGER THAN LIFE USA: $65k → 13%LARGER THAN LIFE USA: $10k → 13%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 9 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$7.7M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+38%

Still filing today

78%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5.0M · revenue +77%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +114%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHABAD OF KENDALL & PINECREST
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
  • CG
    CONSULATE GENERAL OF ISRAEL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TG
    THE GUNNERY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Jerusalem Connection
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4
The Shalom Ish Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
6
Ishmael & Isaac
International
7
Belev Echad Inc

Belev echad is an international nonprofit dedicated to restoring the wounded men and women of the idf back to life through physical, medical, legal, emotional, and financial support. our extensive therapies and programs help the soldiers…

Human Services
8
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
9
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
10
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
11
Impact Forum Foundation

The Impact Forum is an exclusive network of philanthropists. We are connecting philanthropists that support each others initiatives and collaborate to empower and meet with exceptional non-profit organizations to fight antisemitism,…

Philanthropy
12
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California Irvine Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Reconnecting Mcdowell Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Baptist Health South Florida Inc: $5,000,000 · HealthBaptist Health South Florida IncNYU LANGONE HEALTH: $2,000,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTH+9 more: $69,800 · OtherNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Hea…+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $305,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $100,000 · InternationalISRAEL AIRFORCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $25,000 · InternationalISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100,000 · Human ServicesLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationRECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC: $5,000 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$5,000,000Other$2,069,800Philanthropy$2,015,000International$490,000Human Services$175,000Education$105,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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 budgetBaptist Health South Florida Inc: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $2,000,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $305,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLARGER THAN LIFE USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetISRAEL AIRFORCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECONNECTING MCDOWELL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Helen and Jacob Shaham Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen and Jacob Shaham Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Helen and Jacob Shaham Charitable 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 22 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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