Ohio · Private foundation
Marla & Joseph Shafran 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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $118
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,290
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 82
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $397k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 72 | $70k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $72k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $77k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $63k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $34k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $46k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $64k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuchs Mizrachi Schools | $98,985 | 5 | 0% |
| Green Road Synagogue | $87,622 | 7 | n/a |
| Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc | $26,001 | 5 | 0% |
| Denver Academy of Torah | $20,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Cleveland | $9,402 | 7 | 0% |
| Park Synagogue | $6,588 | 7 | n/a |
| The Negev Foundation | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Oheb Zedek-Cedar Sinai Synagogue | $4,911 | 5 | n/a |
| American Friends of Migdal OHR | $4,800 | 4 | 0% |
| University Circle Incorporated | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation
- How much does Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation give?
- Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $70,838 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 82 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Education (23%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Fuchs Mizrachi Schools ($99k), Green Road Synagogue ($88k), Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc ($26k).
- Does Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation 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 Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation.
- Where is Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation based?
- Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation is based in OH.
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