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Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$55k48%
FY20233$7k33%
FY20223$6k0%
FY202115$4k27%
FY202013$5k38%
FY201915$3k20%
FY201821$3k19%
FY201721$3kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$59kHuman Services$9kCivil Rights$6kArts & Culture$3kHealth$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Benefit$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Beth Shalom$27,2298n/a
Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation$10,8102n/a
National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section$5,75060%
American Jewish Committee$5,00010%
Congregation Dor Hadash$4,3503n/a
Jewish Association on Aging$3,00020%
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$2,22650%
Na Amat USA$2,0001n/a
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$2,00010%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$1,86740%
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Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section: $5,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Association on Aging: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $2,226 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $1,867 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $1,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service: $204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeople for the American Way: $136 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

David S Shapira FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David S Shapira Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · 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.

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About Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust

How much does Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust give?
Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $55,647 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Human Services (11%), Civil Rights (7%).
Who are Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Congregation Beth Shalom ($27k), Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation ($11k), National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section ($6k).
Does Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include David S Shapira Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust based?
Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust is based in PA.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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