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Sd Foundation at a glance

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Sd 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.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0150% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$41kArts & Culture$530Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various$22,020
Individual grant recipient$6,400
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Shekel Hakodesh$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,110
Individual grant recipient$1,100
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Congregation Nesivos$482
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Ahavas Chaverim: $4k → 14%Various: $22k → 14%GLOBAL CENTER OF SKVER: $11k → 14%Various: $10k → 14%Chevra Kedisha: $6k → 14%Chevra Kadisha of New Square: $5k → 14%Cong Avir Yakov: $5k → 14%Bnei Yakov Yosef: $5k → 14%CONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOV: $4k → 14%MIFAL HATORAH: $4k → 14%VARIOUS: $3k → 14%CONG BNEI YECHIEL: $3k → 14%CONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOV: $3k → 14%CONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOV: $2k → 14%CONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOV: $2k → 14%SHEKEL HAKODESH: $2k → 14%Shekel Hakodesh: $2k → 14%GLOBAL CENTER OF SKVER: $2k → 14%SHEKEL HAKODESH: $2k → 14%Khal Chasidei Square: $1k → 14%Mifal Hatorah: $1k → 14%KHAL CHASIDEI SQUARE: $1k → 14%Merkaz Hakollilm: $1k → 14%SHEKEL HAKODESH: $1k → 14%KHAL CHASIDEI SQUARE: $900 → 14%KHAL CHASIDEI SQUARE: $870 → 14%KHAL CHASIDEI SQUARE: $850 → 14%Khal Chasidei Square: $840 → 14%Congregation Nesivos: $800 → 14%KHAL CHASIDEI SQUARE: $780 → 14%Mifal Mayunes: $575 → 14%VARIOUS: $530 → 14%Congregation Nesivos: $482 → 14%MIFAL MAYUNES: $360 → 14%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 8 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$80k
$17k

Still filing today

13%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • V
    Various
    4× · 2019–2024 · $36k
  • GC
    GLOBAL CENTER OF SKVER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $13k
  • CY
    CONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOV
    4× · 2019–2022 · $11k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CK
    CHEVRA KADISHA OF NEW SQUARE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various: $35,820 · OtherVariousGLOBAL CENTER OF SKVER: $13,200 · OtherGLOBAL CENTER OF SKVERCONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOV: $11,000 · OtherCONG YESHIVA AVIR YAKOVSHEKEL HAKODESH: $6,700 · OtherSHEKEL HAKODESHIndividual grant recipient: $6,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,370 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCHEVRA KADISHA OF NEW SQUARE: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,100 · Other+3 more: $5,282 · OtherMIFAL MAYUNES INC: $935 · Religion
Other$108,472Religion$935

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIFAL MAYUNES INC: $935 over 2y, 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 MIFAL MAYUNES INC ↗

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.

Breuer Charitable Fou…The Ojc FundThe Pillars TrustLodz Charitable TrustFidelity Investments …
Breuer Charitable Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Breuer Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · The Pillars Trust · Lodz Charitable Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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