· Private foundation
Selma Schechter Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k12 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED HATZALAH | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BAIS CHANA | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| Jewish Leadership Institute | $2,500 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM | $2,500 |
| Dranoff International 2 | $1,000 |
| A F Kindness and Charity | $700 |
| Mesivta of Greater Miami | $500 |
| DEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $396 |
| YAD EZRA | $360 |
| Yad L'Achim | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JLJEWISH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +52%
- YIYehudi Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +116%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- YTYeshiva Toras Chaimone grant, 2018 · $15k
- YTYESHIVA TORAS CHAIM TORAS EMESone grant, 2017 · $13k
- BJBETH JACOB CONGREGATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Religious School
Support of religious schools in Israel
Our school is run on a system of mutual respect, for teachers, administration and students. in a warm and caring environment, full of creativity and multi-faceted approaches to education, we ignite a spark in each girl to love hashem and…
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
Support for study of torah and chasiddus in ramat shilo, israel
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
To provide financial assistance to jewish educational and charitable causes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Debbie's Dream Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 50 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Yehudi Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CHARGE SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MIAMI BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KINDNESS & CHAR ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MESIFTA OF GREATER MIAMI-LOUIS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation · The Russell & Ronalee Galbut Family Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Ojc Fund · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Selma Schechter Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
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.