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Samuel H Christenfeld Foundation Inc

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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$66kPhilanthropy$19kYouth Development$7kHealth$2kInternational$1kRecreation & Sports$750Science & Tech$250Civil Rights$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$325
Median grant
2
States reached
$204k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION$5,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$3,733
TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY$2,050
ELLUMINATE INC$325
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$250
SHARSHERET INC$250
EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UJA FEDERATION: $5k → 17%EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION: $250 → 20%ISRAEL CHILDREN'S TENNIS CENTERS: $500 → 13%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $4k → 7%CONGREGATION OHR SHALOM: $2k → 10%UJA FEDERATION: $4k → 17%EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION: $200 → 20%ISRAEL CHILDREN'S TENNIS CENTERS: $250 → 13%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%UJA FEDERATION: $1k → 17%EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION: $200 → 20%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%UJA FEDERATION: $500 → 17%EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION: $200 → 20%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%UJA FEDERATION: $500 → 17%EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION: $200 → 20%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION: $200 → 20%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%UJA FEDERATION: $500 → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%ELLUMINATE INC: $325 → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $3k → 7%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $300 → 17%TEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY: $2k → 7%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%SHARSHERET INC: $250 → 7%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $250 → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%JEWISH WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $1k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $4k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $4k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 17%ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $250 → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $4k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $3k → 17%YOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$89k · 8 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$89k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+57%

Still filing today

50%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $825 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +39%
  • YR
    YOUTH RENEWAL FUND
    3× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +37%
  • EZ
    EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • SW
    SAM WAXMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $200
  • KJ
    KAPLAN JCC ON THE PALISADES
    one grant, 2019 · $180

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
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4
The Jerusalem Connection
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5
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
9
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
10
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
11
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elluminate Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eugene Zitwer Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC — $37,634 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCTEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY — $28,080 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL OF THE PASCAK VALLEY+8 more — $7,035 · Other+8 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $11,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH…YOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $7,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $400 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $250 · International+1 more — $50 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $250 · Civil RightsSharsheret Inc — $250 · Health
Other$72,749Philanthropy$11,600Education$7,000Community Improvement$5,000International$1,700Civil Rights$250Health$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $11,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION INC — $1,400 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLUMINATE INC — $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Samuel H Christenfeld Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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