· Private foundation
Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k72 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS | $22,557 |
| GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE | $18,750 |
| DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH | $8,750 |
| PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| OHEB ZEDEK-CEDAR SINAI SYNAGOGUE | $1,850 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND | $1,200 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL OHR | $1,200 |
| THE NEGEV FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INC | $1,000 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND | $1,000 |
| CSU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE DENVER KEHILLAH | $600 |
| FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT SHA'ALVIM | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
103 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FMFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +31%
- DADENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +10%
- BCBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- MOMOED-MIKVAH OF EAST DENVERone grant, 2020 · $1k
- YIYOUNG ISRAEL OF CLEVELANDone grant, 2020 · $1k
- GOGATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -6%
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.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 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. 77 of the 179 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 FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds THE NEGEV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
- Who funds MIKVAH USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE KEHILLAH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI AKIVA YESHIVOT IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AMSHINOVER YESHIVA JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Shlieberan Family Foundation · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel 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 Marla & Joseph Shafran 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.