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Marsha Jane Shainwald Fund for Social Justice

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.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of MARSHA JANE SHAINWALD FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$412k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERISTY ID # 13-5562308$25,000
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS UNDER 1000$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 17%WOMEN'S E NEWS: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$53k · 11 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +229% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
35

Total granted

$53k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+229%
+41%

Still filing today

18%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NF
    NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP EIN 20-0234163
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k
  • CC
    CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +13%
  • BS
    BETH-EL SYNOGOGUE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k

Funded once

  • EK
    ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CTRLUCY MOSES SCH FOR MUSIC & DANCEEIN 13-1991118
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • NY
    NEW YORK LAW SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • CI
    CONSOURCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
6
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
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Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York City Rescue Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr20%33%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr20%43%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr14%25%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
11%
4,845/44,581

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK UNIVERISTY ID # 13-5562308 — $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERISTY ID # 13-5562308NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP EIN 20-0234163 — $15,000 · OtherNURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP EIN 20-0234163BETH-EL SYNOGOGUE — $10,000 · OtherBETH-EL SYNOGOGUEJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $6,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTSELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CTRLUCY MOSES SCH FOR MUSIC & DANCEEIN 13-1991118 — $5,000 · OtherELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CTRLUCY MOSES SCH FOR MUSIC & DANCEEIN 13-1991118CONSOURCE INC — $3,500 · OtherINSTITUTE OF JEWISH HUMANITIES — $2,950 · Other+22 more — $9,012 · Other+22 moreCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCEDILLE CHICAGO…The American Classical Orchestra Inc — $500 · Arts & CulturePrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc — $500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $530 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION — $500 · Education+1 more — $75 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Science & TechTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $2,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S E-NEWS — $100 · Human ServicesJERICHO PROJECT — $375 · Housing & ShelterFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $75 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $70 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $50 · International
Other$76,462Arts & Culture$14,030Education$5,575Science & Tech$3,500Human Services$2,600Housing & Shelter$375International$195

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP — $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSOURCE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Classical Orchestra Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCCRC INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT — $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S E-NEWS — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR WAY BOOKS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL KOSTER MEMORIAL BENEFIT INC — $75 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTRICK MUSIC ACADEMY INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission — $29 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP
  • Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
  • Who funds CONSOURCE INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds The American Classical Orchestra Inc
  • Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc
  • Who funds CCRC INC
  • Who funds JERICHO PROJECT
  • Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM
  • Who funds WOMEN'S E-NEWS
  • Who funds FOUR WAY BOOKS INC
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds PAUL KOSTER MEMORIAL BENEFIT INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Marsha Jane Shainwald Fund for Social Justice 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation7% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Marsha Jane Shainwald Fund for Social Justice?

Find your warmest path to Marsha Jane Shainwald Fund for Social Justice 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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