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Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity C-2

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Science & Tech$25kYouth Development$25kHealth$21kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$18kReligion$14kCivil Rights$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$12,500
MADISON SQUARE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION$12,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Delaware Hillel: $2k → 10%Salk Institute: $25k → 11%Simon Wiesenthal Center: $1k → 14%ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%American Friends Yeshivat Birkat Moshe: $3k → 13%Emunah of America - Emunah Rachel: $3k → 17%Palm Beach Opera: $2k → 11%John W Nick Fndtn: $6k → 12%PKD Foundation: $15k → 15%Save the Children: $13k → 9%Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation: $1k → 14%American Friends Netzach Wehoshua: $2k → 6%American Friends of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe: $1k → 13%Emunah of American - Emunah Rachel: $3k → 17%Save the Children: $7k → 9%American Friends of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe: $1k → 13%Emunah of American - Emunah Rachel: $3k → 17%American Friends of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe: $1k → 13%Emunah Women's Organization: $4k → 17%American Friends of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe: $1k → 13%PEF Endowment Fund: $6k → 17%PEF Endowment Fund: $4k → 17%PEF Endowment Fund: $4k → 17%PEF Endowment Fund: $3k → 17%MADISON SQUARE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%Orthodox Union Israel Center: $1k → 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.

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$49k · 4 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$49k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+59%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalReligionCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • PE
    PEF Endowment Fund
    4× · 2018–2021 · $17k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS YESHIVAT BIRKAT MOSHE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue -85%

Funded once

  • SI
    Salk Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • PF
    PKD Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -15%
  • JW
    JOHN W NICK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · 25% of their budget

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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
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
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
5
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
6
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
7
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
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
10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
12
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends Yeshivat Birkat Moshe. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Salk Institute — $25,000 · OtherSalk InstitutePEF Endowment Fund — $17,425 · OtherPEF Endowment FundPKD Foundation — $15,000 · OtherPKD FoundationJOHN W NICK FOUNDATION — $6,000 · OtherJOHN W NICK FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $3,800 · Other+5 more — $8,100 · Other+5 moreSave The Children Federation Inc — $19,500 · InternationalSave The Childre…ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · PhilanthropyISLANDERS C…THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELIZABE…Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentMadison S…AMERICAN FRIENDS YESHIVAT BIRKAT MOSHE — $7,000 · ReligionPALM BEACH OPERA INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$80,325International$19,500Philanthropy$13,500Youth Development$12,000Religion$7,000Arts & Culture$3,000Civil Rights$1,000

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 budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS YESHIVAT BIRKAT MOSHE — $7,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJOHN W NICK FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION — $1,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity C-2 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity C-2 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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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