· Private foundation
Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $10,000 |
| ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $7,630 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF PGH | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID AD | $2,000 |
| CONGREGATION DOR HADASH | $2,000 |
| NA'AMAT USA | $2,000 |
| JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICES | $2,000 |
| JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $2,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,517 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC5× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +213%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +91%
- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC4× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $118
- C6CONGREGATION 6TH AND Ione grant, 2021 · $100
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +52%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PITTSBURGH SECTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Sheila Chamovitz Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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