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Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$60k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$780kInternational$710kArts & Culture$611kEducation$364kPublic Safety & Disaster$270kCrime & Legal$260kFood & Nutrition$225kHousing & Shelter$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $360k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS$60,000
HELP USA FUND INC$50,000
THE NEW SCHOOL$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
WNET NY PUBLIC MEDIA$50,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$50,000
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$50,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI FLYING AID$40,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$40,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$30,000
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS$30,000
UNICEF USA$30,000
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY$30,000
BLUE CARD$30,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$30,000
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 (FY19–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE RETREAT INC: $10k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 9%THE RETREAT INC: $10k → 7%BLUE CARD: $30k → 17%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL FLYING AID: $50k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 17%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

NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
DC
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 20 repeat orgs$833k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
19

Total granted

$2.6M
$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

Still filing today

80%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +530%
  • TN
    The New School
    6× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +12%
  • TF
    THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • BL
    BORIS LURIE ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAELI FLYING AID INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZAL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
5
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

To promote, encourage, aid and advance higher and secondary education, research and training in all branches of knowledge. as the standard bearer of excellence, the university strives to ensure and foster outstanding achievements in all…

Education
6
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
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…

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8
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
9
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Help Usa Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Living Theater 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

35 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. 35 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HELP USA FUND INC: $195,000 · OtherTHE HELP USA FUND INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $140,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODBORIS LURIE ART FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherBORIS LURIE ART FOUNDATIONWNET NY PUBLIC MEDIA: $90,000 · OtherWNET NY PUBLIC MEDIAACLU: $80,000 · OtherACLUFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZAL: $50,000 · OtherGREY ART GALLERY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAELI FLYING AID INC: $50,000 · OtherPOLICE2PEACE CORP: $70,000 · OtherPOLICE2PEACE CORP+20 more: $460,563 · Other+20 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $230,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $165,000 · InternationalTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INCHIAS INC: $100,000 · InternationalHIAS INCGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $30,000 · International+1 more: $25,000 · InternationalTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $260,000 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOC…BURN ADVOCATES NETWORK LTD: $170,000 · HealthBURN ADVOCATES …OPHTHALMICEDGE INC: $60,000 · HealthOPHTHALMICEDGE …FIGHTING CHANCE INC: $20,000 · HealthThe New School: $300,000 · EducationThe New Sc…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 · EducationPresident …+1 more: $10,000 · EducationMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBOWERY ARTS AND SCIENCE LTD: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING THEATER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureREUT USA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $240,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $205,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,285,563International$885,000Health$510,000Education$340,000Arts & Culture$281,000Philanthropy$260,000Food & Nutrition$205,000

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 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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $240,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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
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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lurje Schaina and Josephina Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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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.

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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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