· Private foundation
Myron A & Anita E Pinkus Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of Myron A & Anita E Pinkus Charitable FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Penn State University Horticultural Studies Department | $12,000 |
| Penn State University Dickinson Law School Scholarship Fund | $12,000 |
| United Jewish Appeal of Scranton | $3,000 |
| Scranton Hebrew Day School | $2,500 |
| Lackawanna Blind Association | $2,000 |
| Jewish Heritage Connection | $1,000 |
| Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab | $1,000 |
| Jewish Family Service | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| Griffin Pond Animal Shelter | $500 |
| B'Nai Brith Foundation | $500 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $500 |
| Hillel Charles and Lynn Schusterman Intl Ctr | $500 |
| United Way of Lackawanna County | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SHSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +68%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +36%
- LBLACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE DICKINSON LAW SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The museum is dedicated to connecting people to jewish history, culture, and arts.
To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
The mission of the museum is to educate, exampine, and explore the lessons of the holocaust with authenticity, dignity and compassion, so that young and old may learn from them and create a society of mutual respect and understanding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Heritage Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELAN GARDENS INC ELAN SENIOR LIVING A JEWISH SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · 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 Myron A & Anita E Pinkus Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.