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Schleifer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$2.8MCivil Rights$627kPhilanthropy$281kReligion$271kArts & Culture$225kInternational$170kHealth$151kHuman Services$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $1,628,694 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,616,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $987,641 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $427k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$200,602
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cornell University$1,202,041
Conference of Presidents of Major Am Jewish Org'ns$200,602
UJA - Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY$124,647
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$101,404
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 (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Cornell University: $1.2M → 16%American Jewish Committee: $614k → 17%University of Virginia: $101k → 8%Cornell University: $1.2M → 16%UJA - Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY: $125k → 17%Friends of the Israel Defense Forces: $101k → 17%Conference of Presidents of Major Am Jewish Org'ns: $201k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 15 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
69

Total granted

$3.1M
$933k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +46%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $261k · revenue +46%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    2× · 2020–2022 · $178k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $614k · revenue +44%
  • UO
    University of Virginia
    one grant, 2023 · $101k
  • CO
    Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizatic
    one grant, 2022 · $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
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
2
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
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
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

—
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
9
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
10
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services
11
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc

Simon wiesenthal center, inc. (the center) is a global jewish human rights activist organization that confronts anti-semitism, hate, stands with israel, defends the safety of jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for…

Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boulder Outdoor Survival School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%7%5–10yr22%11%10–20yr21%18%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr22%0%10–20yr21%1%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr12%78%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
2,167/21,102

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 90 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
42/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $2,423,310 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,081 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK+2 more — $30,675 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $614,269 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH…+3 more — $11,945 · Civil RightsConference of Presidents of Major Am Jewish Org'ns — $200,602 · OtherConference o…University of Virginia — $100,570 · OtherUniversity o…Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizatic — $25,000 · OtherMARTHAS VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER — $19,410 · OtherCHABAD OF MARTHAS VINEYARD — $18,000 · OtherHospital for Special Surgery — $18,000 · Other+44 more — $126,878 · Other+44 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $260,647 · Philanthropy+2 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $178,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $36,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $12,680 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $101,404 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $38,000 · InternationalACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC — $15,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $10,000 · International+5 more — $9,420 · InternationalCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC — $103,500 · Health+9 more — $13,585 · Health
Education$2,654,066Civil Rights$626,214Other$508,460Philanthropy$266,647Arts & Culture$227,180International$173,824Health$117,085

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCornell University — $2,423,310 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $614,269 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $260,647 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $200,081 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $178,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC — $103,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $101,404 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $38,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $36,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC — $30,225 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetACCESSIBILITY ACCELERATOR INC — $15,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION — $10,210 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHELP FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $5,150 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST — $3,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COUNCIL INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHE SHABBOS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJawonio Foundation Inc — $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENT NEXT INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC — $1,225 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP — $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoulder Outdoor Survival School — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $500 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 FundPcsb Community Founda…Webster Bank Charitab…Glff IncCombined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…The Jean & Henry Poll…Vanguard Charitable E…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…The Pfizer Foundation…FjcRenaissance Charitabl…
Jewish Communal FundNY24.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Pcsb Community Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Glff Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Jean & Henry Pollak Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fjc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Schleifer 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Schleifer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schleifer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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