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Herbert H Schiff 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.

$505k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$846kPhilanthropy$670kEducation$439kArts & Culture$290kHuman Services$243kCommunity Improvement$120kHousing & Shelter$108kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES$155,000
HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF$135,000
HIAS ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT FUND$120,000
IRIS$25,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CTR$25,000
ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER$15,000
METROPOLITAN COUCIL ON JEWISH$10,000
BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY$5,000
COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
I AM TRENTON$5,000
PLAYGROUNDNYC INC$2,500
TZEDEK DC$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $8k → 14%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $25k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $25k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
OK
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Herbert H Schiff Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Herbert H Schiff Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$385k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$1.8M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+4%

Still filing today

42%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CO
    Chabad of Columbus Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $490k · revenue +88%
  • HS
    HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $394k · revenue +23%
  • EF
    ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $133k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH CENTER OF GREATER NAPLES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TF
    THE FLORENCE MELTON SCHOOL OF ADULT JEWISH LEARNING
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish Food Society Inc

Jewish food society works to preserve and celebrate jewish culinary heritage from around the world in order to increase awareness and deepen connections to jewish life. jfs is committed to showcasing the diversity of the jewish experience,…

Arts & Culture
2
Magen David of Manhattan

The organization maintains a jewish community center to provide social and educational services to the jewish community in new york city, new york.

Religion
3
Jewish Home of Central New York Senior Apartments Inc

Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…

Housing & Shelter
4
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
5
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Hav

Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…

Human Services
6
Jewish Home of Central New York Residential Living Inc

Jewish home of central new york residential living's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home is committed to maintaining…

Human Services
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

8
Chabad Jewish Center

The Organization operates an religious outreach center to promote and understand Judaism and the laws of Kosher.

Human Services
9
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

10
National Council of Jewish Women New York Section

Ncjw ny turns progressive ideals into action, impacting 8,000 new yorkers annually: we provide direct services to support and empower our neighbors in need today - people from all walks of life and all racial and religious backgrounds.…

Community Improvement
11
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
12
Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council On Jewish Poverty

Metropolitan ny coordinating council is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a primary advocate for the social welfare needs of the poor, near-poor and elderly in the metro ny area. the entity is dedicated to the alleviation of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and the most unlike its peers is Baker Senior Center Naples Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC — $620,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INCIRIS — $165,000 · OtherIRISREFORM TEMPLE OF CONEJO VALLEY — $164,643 · OtherREFORM TEMPLE OF CONEJO VALLEYELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $132,500 · OtherELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INCURJ 6 POINTS SPECIALTY CAMPS WEST — $130,000 · OtherURJ 6 POINTS SPECIALTY CAMPS WESTHOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CTR — $100,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CTRJEWISH CENTER OF GREATER NAPLES — $100,000 · OtherJEWISH CENTER OF GREATER NAPLES+16 more — $232,500 · Other+16 moreChabad of Columbus Inc — $490,000 · ReligionChabad of Columbus In…SANDRA CAPLAN COMMUNITY BET DIN — $49,000 · ReligionSANDRA CAPLAN COMMUNI…HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC — $393,572 · EducationHERSHORIN SCHIF…HIAS ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT FUND INC — $120,000 · Community ImprovementBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $7,500 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES — $50,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $25,000 · International
Other$1,644,643Religion$539,000Education$393,572Community Improvement$120,000Human Services$87,500Philanthropy$50,000International$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC — $620,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetChabad of Columbus Inc — $490,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC — $393,572 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $132,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHIAS ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT FUND INC — $120,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSANDRA CAPLAN COMMUNITY BET DIN — $49,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRANFORD FOOD PANTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMet Council Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budget
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC
  • Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc
  • Who funds HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC
  • Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC
  • Who funds HIAS ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT FUND INC
  • Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES
  • Who funds SANDRA CAPLAN COMMUNITY BET DIN
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN
  • Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC
  • Who funds BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds Met Council Inc
  • Who funds COLUMBUS JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds TZEDEK DC INC
  • Who funds PLAY GROUNDNYC 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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Herbert H Schiff 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 76%
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc76% of income from government
  • Hias Economic Advancement Fund Inc51% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Herbert H Schiff Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herbert H Schiff Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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