· Private foundation
Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAHOE ARTS PROJECT | $29,565 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $8,000 |
| CARAVITA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (LA) | $4,565 |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | $3,500 |
| ANGELS FOR ANGELS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $2,500 |
| KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL | $1,500 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- TATAHOE ARTS PROJECT6× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +95% · 40% of their budget
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +25%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SLSEVEN LOCKS JEWISH COMMUNITY INC AKA CONGREGATION HAR SHALOMone grant, 2024 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $17k
- CHCONGREGATION HAR SHALOMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +56%
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.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.
Habitat for humanity of greater los angeles brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.
Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
The mission of los angeles christian health centers is to follow christ by loving and serving our neighbors through the provision of comprehensive quality healthcare. our vision is the healing and restoration of homeless and underserved…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caravita Foundation (Formerly Angels for Angels Foundation). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 31 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 TAHOE ARTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARAVITA FOUNDATION (FORMERLY ANGELS FOR ANGELS FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman Charitable 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.