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Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial 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.

$895k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalPublic BenefitHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$825k46%
FY202415$591k40%
FY20237$210k14%
FY202211$410k27%
FY202117$498k24%
FY202021$512k57%
FY201913$435kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$780kInternational$710kArts & Culture$611kEducation$364kPublic Safety & Disaster$270kCrime & Legal$260kFood & Nutrition$225kHousing & Shelter$195kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($791k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc: $300,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetThe New School: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $260,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $230,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $205,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Help USA Fund Inc: $195,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBurn Advocates Network Ltd: $170,000 over 5y, 81% of budgetThe Halo Trust (Usa) Inc: $165,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHias Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPolice2peace Corp: $70,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetOphthalmicedge Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Smile Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowery Arts and Science Ltd: $21,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFighting Chance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRetreat Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Center for Jewish Filminc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRobert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRadio Workshop US Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 FundNY14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc

How much does Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc give?
Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $895,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), International (19%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc ($300k), The New School ($300k), The Fortune Society Inc ($260k).
Does Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc based?
Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 54 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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