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Masel Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Masel Family Charitable Trust

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.

$2k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$9kHuman Services$2kCommunity Improvement$2kHealth$2kEducation$680Arts & Culture$596Food & Nutrition$440Animals$250Other$0
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,950
Median grant
1
States reached
$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM$1,950
GOLDEN SLIPPER CHARITIES$180
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIAN J DISCOUNT MELANOMA FUND: $500 → 6%OLD YORK ROAD TEMPLE BETH AM: $144 → 7%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $100 → 10%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $150 → 11%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM: $2k → 22%ASCPA: $60 → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED ST: $200 → 14%JAFCO: $7k → 13%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY: $250 → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY: $190 → 11%GREATER ATLANTIC COUNTY CHARITIES: $530 → 11%GOLDEN SLIPPER CHARITIES: $400 → 7%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $75 → 10%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $100 → 11%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM: $2k → 22%JAFCO: $4k → 13%SALEM COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND: $295 → 11%GREATER ATLANTIC COUNTY CHARITIES: $350 → 11%GOLDEN SLIPPER CHARITIES: $250 → 7%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM: $450 → 22%JAFCO: $3k → 13%SALEM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50 → 11%MILTON & BETTY KATZ JCC: $4k → 11%GOLDEN SLIPPER CHARITIES: $250 → 7%CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM: $72 → 22%MARGATE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%GOLDEN SLIPPER CHARITIES: $180 → 7%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $90 → 22%MARGATE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $750 → 11%KENESTH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $350 → 7%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $90 → 22%MILTON & BETTY KATZ JCC: $400 → 11%MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE: $60 → 7%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $100 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ATLANTIC COU: $150 → 11%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $81 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ATLANTIC CO: $150 → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILAD: $150 → 22%THE SAVE LUCY COMMITTEE INC: $50 → 11%TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS: $85 → 22%RNS CANCER & HEART FUND: $560 → 11%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDA: $50 → 22%RNS CANCER & HEART FUND: $225 → 11%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $400 → 22%MANA - CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $400 → 11%ATLANTIC CITY BALLET: $100 → 11%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 11 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$28k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+43%

Still filing today

45%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsEmploymentFood & 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

  • MB
    MARGATE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +60%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $261 · revenue +47%
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $250 · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • BJ
    BRIAN J DISCOUNT MELANOMA FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • MC
    MANA - CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2018 · $400
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +72%
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
The Newark Museum Association

Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Peabody Essex Museum Inc

Pem offers thought-provoking experiences of the arts, humanities, and sciences to activate understanding of our shared humanity and to empower imagination and learning through experimentation. we steward, build, and make our collections…

Arts & Culture
4
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
5
Baltimore Museum of Art

The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…

Arts & Culture
6
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
7
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
8
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
9
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Save Lucy Committee 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

14 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. 14 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAFCO: $14,034 · OtherJAFCORODEPH SHALOM CONGREGATION: $4,702 · OtherRODEPH SHALOM CONGREGATIONMILTON & BETTY KATZ JCC: $3,979 · OtherMILTON & BETTY KATZ JCCGOLDEN SLIPPER CHARITIES: $1,080 · Other+19 more: $4,549 · Other+19 moreMARGATE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,930 · EmploymentTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $400 · HealthCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $175 · HealthTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $261 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $135 · Arts & CultureLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50 · EducationCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $250 · Food & NutritionHumane World for Animals Inc: $200 · Animals
Other$28,344Employment$1,930Health$575Arts & Culture$396Education$300Food & Nutrition$250Animals$200

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 budgetMARGATE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,930 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $261 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC: $190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic City Ballet: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE LUCY COMMITTEE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MARGATE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic City Ballet ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds SALEM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SAVE LUCY COMMITTEE INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Masel Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masel Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Atlantic City Ballet: 15% of income from government
  • Save Lucy Committee Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Margate Business Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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, 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.

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 32 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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