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Schiffer 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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$186kPublic Benefit$147kArts & Culture$78kHuman Services$77kHealth$76kAnimals$71kReligion$46kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC$25,000
PINK AID INC$15,000
CHABAD OF MID-SUFFOLK$15,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$10,000
JEWISH SILICON VALLEY$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$10,000
PAPER AIRPLANES INC$5,000
LAST HOPE INC$5,000
CATO INSTITUTE$3,500
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE$3,500
I AM WILD FOUNDATION INC$2,500
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC$2,500
UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND INC$2,500
BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC$2,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $5k → 4%JEWISH SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%NEW GROUND: $5k → 6%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 7%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $5k → 4%NEW GROUND INC: $5k → 6%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1k → 7%NEW GROUND INC: $5k → 6%NEW GROUND INC: $3k → 6%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Schiffer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Schiffer Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$492k · 27 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
23

Total granted

$492k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

85%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +273%
  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DUVDEVANgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +120%
  • SB
    STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MODERN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

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
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Episcopal Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Duvdevan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…United Way AffiliatesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHABAD OF MID-SUFFOLK — $44,000 · OtherCHABAD OF MID-SUFFOLKI AM WILD FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 · OtherI AM WILD FOUNDATION INCSTONY BROOK UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherSTONY BROOK UNIVERSITYTHE MODERN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · OtherTHE MODERN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $18,500 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUD…UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND — $11,000 · OtherLAST HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHABILITATION — $10,500 · OtherJUSTICE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · OtherPAWS OF WAR INC — $11,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,000 · Other+18 more — $52,300 · Other+18 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGESTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $42,900 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYVARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER — $11,000 · EducationPAPER AIRPLANES INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $4,500 · EducationJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $100,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCCATO INSTITUTE — $28,500 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTEUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $5,500 · Public BenefitJEWISH SILICON VALLEY — $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SI…New Ground Inc — $17,500 · Human ServicesNew Groun…JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MA…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCANINE CO…JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesJOHN JAY …FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN — $30,000 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyUnreported Story Society — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUMS AT MITCHEL — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JED FOUNDATION — $13,500 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $10,000 · HealthST CATHERINE OF SIENA MEDICAL CENTER — $3,300 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,000 · HealthEPISCOPAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $2,900 · HealthRACHELS DANCE FOR THE CURE INC — $2,500 · HealthTHE POSTPARTUM RESOURCE CENTER OF NY INC — $2,000 · Health
Other$254,800Education$208,400Public Benefit$134,000Human Services$69,000Philanthropy$47,000Arts & Culture$45,000Health$37,200

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 budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $42,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnreported Story Society — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH SILICON VALLEY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN — $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Ground Inc — $17,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPINK AID INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAPER AIRPLANES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST HOPE INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUMS AT MITCHEL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL & DENTAL STAFF OF THE NASSAU HEALTH CARE CORP — $3,300 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetST CATHERINE OF SIENA MEDICAL CENTER — $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMELVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEPISCOPAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $2,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACHELS DANCE FOR THE CURE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman — $1,000 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Jewish Communal FundNY14.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Schiffer Family Foundation 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 · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 55 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.

    Source object · view filing

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