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Sax Charitable 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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$435kReligion$334kEducation$25kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kAnimals$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STJOSEPH'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$100,000
BROOKLYN DEBATE LEAGUE$20,000
JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO)$5,400
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER NEW YORK$2,500
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS (FKA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES)$1,800
WARREN GIRL SCOUT TROUPS (DANCE COMMITTEE WARREN TOWNSHIP ME & MY GUY)$300
02The need
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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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $5k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER NEW YORK: $3k → 17%THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY: $500 → 16%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 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
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
2
The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties Inc

To provide enhanced opportunities for all citizens of bergen and passaic counties with intellectual and other disabilities and their families through advocacy, community education, direct services, and customized supports to help these…

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3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service

Bcs partners with people to overcome obstacles on their pathway toward self-determination (see schedule o).

Human Services
5
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
6
Brooklyn Free School Association

Brooklyn Free School's (BFS's) mission is education for social justice. Always advocating for young people's voices to be heard, BFS engages students and staff in democratic decision-making and problem solving. We honor student choice and…

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7
Sco Family of Services

Sco family of services works with new york's most vulnerable - those striving to overcome the devastating impact of poverty, neglect, abuse or developmental and mental challenges. we respond to moments of crisis and prevent crises before…

Human Services
8
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
9
Archway Programs Inc

Because everyone's need is special, archway programs, inc. offers a wide array of people, services, products and facilities wholly committed to excellence and solely dedicated to assisting children and adults to succeed.

Human Services
10
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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11
Ackerman Institute for the Family

The institute is dedicated to the study, diagnosis and treatment of family relationship problems

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STJOSEPH'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $431,000 · OtherSTJOSEPH'S CHILDRENS HOSPITALSTJOSEPH'S RMC FOUNDATION: $333,740 · OtherSTJOSEPH'S RMC FOUNDATION+2 more: $20,300 · OtherBROOKLYN DEBATE LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · EducationBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · EducationJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $5,400 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $500 · Human ServicesTeam Wilderness Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,102 · HealthHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,800 · Animals
Other$785,040Education$25,000Human Services$8,400Youth Development$5,000Health$3,102Animals$1,800

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 budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN DEBATE LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Wilderness Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $500 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.

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
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 Sax Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sax Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Family Promise of Morris County Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Arc of Essex County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sax Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sax Charitable Foundation Inc 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 12 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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