How much does Schmell Family Foundation Inc give?

Schmell Family Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $2,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Schmell Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (77%), Philanthropy (9%), Food & Nutrition (6%).

Who are Schmell Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Friends of Kesher Yehudi ($25k), National Council of Young Israel ($12k), Nesiv Hatorah Inc ($10k).

Does Schmell Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Schmell Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Schmell Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Stephen and Regina Savitsky Foundation, The Ojc Fund.

Where is Schmell Family Foundation Inc based?

Schmell Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

Schmell Family Foundation Inc

Schmell Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Schmell Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1k

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, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$69kPhilanthropy$8kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$5kHealth$790Education$500

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$800

Median grant

States reached

$27k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GUSH ETZION FOUNDATION	$1,000
LEON MAYER FUND	$800
BAIS YAKOV ATERES MIRIAM	$500

02The need

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 (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$58k · 7 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +397% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$58k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+397%

-3%

Still filing today

43%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthReligionOther

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

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHER YEHUDI
2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +397%
NC
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL
3× · 2020–2023 · $12k
SR
SHUVU RETURN INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue -28%

Funded once

NH
NESIV HATORAH INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k
YC
YESHIVA CHOFETZ CHAIM
one grant, 2023 · $5k
BM
BAIS MEDRASH OF WOODMERE
one grant, 2024 · $4k

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.

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

Sherit Isroel

—

Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy

American Friends of Minyan Avreichim

Support religious jewish instituions in furthering torah study

—

American Friends of Shovu Yisroel Inc

To provide grants to jewish religious organization in need.

Religion

American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International

American Friends of Yeshivath Kerem B'yavneh Inc

To provide grants to religious schools providing higher education

—

American Friends of Daas Aharon Inc

To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shavei Hevron Institutions Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Leon Mayer Fund 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

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 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/13

Grantees still filing

7/13

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$52,220Human Services$25,040Philanthropy$8,415International$3,300Education$1,000Religion$860Health$790

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

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Stephen and Regina Savitsky Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Royal Heritage Foundation Inc · Mzl 40 Foundation · Dlh Foundation Inc · The J W Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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