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Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$154kEducation$80kReligion$52kHealth$49kHuman Services$38kCrime & Legal$34kHousing & Shelter$8kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$2,500
OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER$2,500
KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL$1,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMAN'S CENTER: $4k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%FOOD ON FOOT: $2k → 14%FOOD ON FOOT: $1k → 14%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
CA
CO
MD
HI
GA
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$315k · 9 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$315k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+40%

Still filing today

89%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • TA
    TAHOE ARTS PROJECT
    6× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +95% · 40% of their budget
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +25%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SL
    SEVEN LOCKS JEWISH COMMUNITY INC AKA CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • CH
    CONGREGATION HAR SHALOMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +56%
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
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
2
Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County Inc

To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.

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3
Human Services Association

The principal mission of Human Services Association is to provide families with compassionate and comprehensive care to promote wellness and build strong communities.

Human Services
4
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Via Care Community Health Center

Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.

Health
6
Housing Works

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
California Healthcare Foundation

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…

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8
California Housing Partner Corporation

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.

Unclassified
9
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

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…

Health
10
West Hollywood Community Housing Corp

The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.

Housing & Shelter
11
Los Angeles Christian Health Centers

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…

Health
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAHOE ARTS PROJECT: $148,623 · OtherTAHOE ARTS PROJECTALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $19,711 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSSEVEN LOCKS JEWISH COMMUNITY INC AKA CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM: $19,692 · OtherSEVEN LOCKS JEWISH COMMUNITY INC AKA CONGREGATION HAR SHALOMIndividual grant recipient: $16,809 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESFAMILY VIOLENCE PROJECT: $14,000 · Other+14 more: $69,065 · Other+14 moreCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIV…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $22,800 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesFOOD ON FOOT: $3,000 · Human ServicesWHITE HEART FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $14,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $11,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthCONGREGATION HAR SHALOM: $16,500 · ReligionHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCARAVITA FOUNDATION (FORMERLY ANGELS FOR ANGELS FOUNDATION): $5,000 · Animals
Other$287,900Education$80,000Human Services$31,800Health$28,500Religion$16,500Philanthropy$5,000Animals$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 budgetTAHOE ARTS PROJECT: $148,623 over 6y, 40% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $22,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $19,711 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ON FOOT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HEART FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 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.

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.

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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 Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Carolyn Shachtman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    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.

    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 31 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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