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Maxine R & Jack S Schiffman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Maxine R & Jack S Schiffman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$397kPhilanthropy$366kInternational$150kArts & Culture$107kFood & Nutrition$87kReligion$70kEducation$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$824k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY$30,000
MARCUS AUTISM CENTER$15,000
GEORGIA AQUARIUM$5,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$5,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$5,000
FOOD & FRIENDS$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH$5,000
MUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBARY FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
COLUMBUS HOSPICE$5,000
JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSN OF GEORGIA$2,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
AL
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 25 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+38%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $366k · revenue +65%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +25%
  • CH
    COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • CS
    COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY - SCHWOB SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • DIRECT RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +94%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
10
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
12
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding the Valley 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $99,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DC: $70,000 · OtherTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $45,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INC: $45,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INCMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $40,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to HungerALZHEIMER'S ASSN OF GEORGIA: $31,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSN OF GEORGIAGEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $30,000 · OtherGEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTINGCOLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000 · OtherMUSCOGEE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $58,250 · Other+8 moreUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $365,914 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE V…+1 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $45,000 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INCCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $45,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $45,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A …CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $39,200 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE…American Diabetes Association: $30,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Ass…JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthJOY TO LIFE FOUNDATIO…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RE…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $45,000 · InternationalAMERICAN …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …DIRECT RELIEF: $15,000 · InternationalDIRECT RE…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIV…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCamp Judaea Inc: $10,200 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$481,250Philanthropy$373,914Health$237,200International$105,000Arts & Culture$62,000Education$10,200Human Services$5,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $365,914 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOSPICE INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $39,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Judaea Inc: $10,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC: $8,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Camp Judaea Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds WYNNTON NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER COLUMBUS 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Pat and Jack Wilensky…Richard and Helen Rob…Lockwood Partners Fou…Mildred Miller Fort F…The Daniel P Amos Fam…Bradley-Turner Founda…Georgia Power Foundat…Gb & Ca Saunders Foun…The Jordan Foundation…The Patton Foundation…George and Ann Swift …
Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Pat and Jack Wilensky Family Foundation · Richard and Helen Robbins Family Foundation Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Patton Foundation Inc · George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Inc

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 Maxine R & Jack S Schiffman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxine R & Jack S Schiffman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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