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Sare Family Foundation

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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$540kHealth$382kPhilanthropy$46kEducation$33kHuman Services$29kEnvironment$10kMembership Benefit$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVATH BETH MOSHE$250,000
BETH SHALOM ACADEMY$25,000
JKPPA$20,000
JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTIONS$15,000
JEWISH RESOURCE OF THE POCONOS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,614
AMERICAN LEGION POST 328$5,000
RABBI HEITH BETH SHALOM$5,000
ELAN SKILLED NURSING HOME$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BOCA HELPING HANDS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
GREEN CHIMNEYS$1,500
JEWISH FEDERATION$1,100
ELAN GARDENS SENIOR LIVING$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 13%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 24 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
34

Total granted

$1.0M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+18%

Still filing today

17%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
HealthEducationReligionFood & NutritionPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ES
    ELAN SKILLED NURSING HOME
    4× · 2022–2025 · $378k
  • YB
    YESHIVATH BETH MOSHE-THE MILTON EISNER YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF
    5× · 2019–2025 · $376k
  • JH
    JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +23%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +18%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
2
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
3
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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4
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
5
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

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6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Community Medical Center

Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, and community service.

Health
10
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
11
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
12
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Scranton; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Heritage Connection. 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

13 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. 13 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELAN SKILLED NURSING HOME: $377,500 · OtherELAN SKILLED NURSING HOMEYESHIVATH BETH MOSHE-THE MILTON EISNER YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF: $376,410 · OtherYESHIVATH BETH MOSHE-THE MILTON EISNER YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OFJEWISH FEDERATION: $44,100 · OtherBETH SHALOM ACADEMY: $43,500 · Other+51 more: $205,279 · Other+51 moreJEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION: $53,000 · ReligionJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS: $10,000 · ReligionARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $16,174 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $14,487 · EducationBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $4,050 · Food & NutritionJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON: $2,300 · Human ServicesSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $1,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY INTERVENTION CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 · HealthJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 · InternationalPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $200 · Public Benefit
Other$1,046,789Religion$63,000Education$30,661Food & Nutrition$4,050Human Services$2,300Health$2,250International$1,000Public Benefit$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION: $53,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $16,174 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $14,487 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $4,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON: $2,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INTERVENTION CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $200 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS ↗
  • Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗

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.

Robert H Spitz FoundationPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert H Spitz Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania · Schwartz-Mack Foundation · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sare Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sare Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sare Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sare Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 66 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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