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Samuel H Christenfeld Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
SHARSHERET INC$250
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$250
EUGENE ZITWER FOUNDATION$200
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elluminate Inc; 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 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. 11 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Samuel H Christenfeld Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel H Christenfeld Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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