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Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundation at a glance

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Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundation

To further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

79% of Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
5
’19
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’20
4
’21
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’22
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’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$935kEducation$137kArts & Culture$99kReligion$60kCommunity Improvement$35kHealth$35kInternational$12k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $157,920, the rows itemized in this filing. The $179,420 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$125,420
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$15,000
DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH$8,750
LEONARD AND SUSAN FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL$8,750
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH: $9k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $180k → 17%DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH: $9k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $138k → 17%DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH: $9k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $128k → 17%DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH: $8k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $127k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $125k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $123k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $113k → 17%LEONARD AND SUSAN FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $9k → 17%LEONARD AND SUSAN FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $9k → 17%LEONARD AND SUSAN FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $9k → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $8k → 17%LEONARD AND SUSAN FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL: $8k → 17%PARK SYNAGOGUE: $25k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $56k → 17%UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $35k → 17%CHABAD OF UNIVERSITY CIRCLE: $35k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $17k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $16k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $13k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $12k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $11k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 5 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$275k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $99k · revenue +10%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $97k · revenue +44%
  • DA
    DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH
    4× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -9%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF UNIVERSITY CIRCLE
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • PS
    PARK SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
5
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

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6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fuchs Mizrachi Schools; the most unlike its peers is University Circle Incorporated. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $934,937 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $97,000 · EducationCASE WESTER…DENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH: $33,500 · EducationDENVER ACAD…HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationHATHAWAY BR…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $99,000 · Arts & CultureCHABAD OF UNIVERSITY CIRCLE: $35,000 · OtherFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $33,500 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUE: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $35,000 · Community ImprovementBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · International
Philanthropy$934,937Education$138,000Arts & Culture$99,000Other$93,500Community Improvement$35,000International$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $934,937 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $99,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $97,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ACADEMY OF TORAH: $33,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $33,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $7,500 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.

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.

Marla & Joseph Shafra…Jewish Federation of …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Marla & Joseph Shafran FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nathan & Fannye Shafran Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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 10 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 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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