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Max a Shacknai Foundation (Fka Noah's Family 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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$387kPhilanthropy$362kHuman Services$275kRecreation & Sports$162kEducation$120kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$926k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC$50,000
LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Max a Shacknai Foundation (Fka Noah's Family Foundation)’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Max a Shacknai Foundation (Fka Noah's Family Foundation)lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$820k · 7 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$820k
$443k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +206%
  • M
    MAXINMOTION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $250k · revenue +122% · 83% of their budget
  • JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • KA
    KEREN ASOR FUND USA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • SS
    SCOTTSDALE SOCCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $60k

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.

1
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
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
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maxinmotion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEREN ASOR FUND USA — $100,000 · OtherKEREN ASOR FUND USAPHOENIX RISING YOUTH SOCCER — $72,000 · OtherPHOENIX RISING YOUTH SOCCERSCOTTSDALE SOCCER FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherSCOTTSDALE SOCCER FOUNDATIONSCOTTSDALE SOCCER FOUNDATION (ARCADIA SCOTTSDALE UNIFIED SOCCER CLUB) — $30,000 · OtherSCOTTSDALE SOCCER FOUNDATION (ARCADIA SC…+4 more — $9,900 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS — $375,000 · HealthCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS+2 more — $9,500 · HealthMAXINMOTION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyMAXINMOTIONUNITED WAY INC — $9,450 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyUCLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationLAGUNA BLA…COLGATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationCOLGATE UN…PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationPHOENIX CO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Human Services
Other$471,900Health$384,500Philanthropy$261,950Education$120,000Human Services$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS — $375,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMAXINMOTION — $250,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $9,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S DERMATOLOGIC SOCIETY — $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $2,500 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 CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS
  • Who funds MAXINMOTION
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC
  • Who funds WOMEN'S DERMATOLOGIC SOCIETY
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY 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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Max a Shacknai Foundation (Fka Noah's Family 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Max a Shacknai Foundation (Fka Noah's Family Foundation)?

    Find your warmest path to Max a Shacknai Foundation (Fka Noah's Family Foundation) 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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