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Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity C-2 at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc; 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 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. 10 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity C-2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity C-2. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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