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Senkfor 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.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$107kEducation$68kHealth$54kInternational$51kReligion$45kRecreation & Sports$41kArts & Culture$29kCommunity Improvement$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,236
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$10,000
JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCOCIATION$7,500
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$7,500
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$7,200
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$5,000
BRIAN INJURY ASSOCIATION$5,000
MANDEL JCC$5,000
ARTTIX$3,030
BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE$3,000
NUZZLES$2,885
PEACE HOUSE$2,750
PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,250
Individual grant recipient$1,500
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$1,500
EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%RODS HEROES: $1k → 12%GLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS: $1k → 17%PEACE HOUSE: $3k → 5%WINGSPAN CARE GROUP: $1k → 17%PEACE HOUSE: $1k → 5%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION: $200 → 17%PEACE HOUSE: $600 → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $250 → 5%THE GATHERING PLACE: $526 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$418k · 48 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
54

Total granted

$418k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+31%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +76%
  • MA
    MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +147%
  • JF
    JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MJ
    MANDEL JCC OF CLEVELAND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • UM
    Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +23%
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

65 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. 65 of the 121 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
51/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE: $49,250 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCEPARK SYNAGOGUE: $39,659 · OtherPARK SYNAGOGUEJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $24,500 · OtherJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONMENORAH PARK: $19,600 · OtherMENORAH PARKUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RAINBOW BABIES: $17,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RAINBOW BABIESTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,900 · Other+86 more: $145,681 · Other+86 moreHAWKEN SCHOOL: $32,800 · EducationHAWKEN SCH…THAT CAN BE ME INC: $4,500 · EducationTHAT CAN B…Citizens Leadership Academy: $4,000 · EducationCitizens L…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $2,750 · EducationTrustees o…KORDA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING: $2,000 · Education+3 more: $1,900 · EducationMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $21,000 · HealthMENORAH P…BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $13,750 · HealthBELLEFAIR…Playing For Life Foundation: $3,835 · HealthPlaying F…+6 more: $2,667 · Health+6 moreMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $27,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $23,181 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $20,400 · Recreation & SportsMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,250 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $3,250 · PhilanthropyCleveland Social Venture Partners: $2,050 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,250 · Philanthropy
Other$319,090Education$47,950Health$41,252Community Improvement$27,500Public Benefit$23,181Recreation & Sports$20,400Philanthropy$18,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $32,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $24,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION): $23,181 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $20,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $13,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $8,003 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEGEV FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPeace House Inc: $4,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHAT CAN BE ME INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCitizens Leadership Academy: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlaying For Life Foundation: $3,835 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Social Venture Partners: $2,050 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKimball Art Center: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRODS HEROES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGSPAN CARE GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $644 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $587 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $526 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA GOAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community for Children's Justice: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $500 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 HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MANUFACTURING ADVOCACY & GROWTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GMILUTH CHASODIM (THE HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION) ↗
  • Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE NEGEV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
  • Who funds THAT CAN BE ME INC ↗
  • Who funds Citizens Leadership Academy ↗
  • Who funds Playing For Life Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗

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.

The Albert B & Audrey…Burton D Morgan Found…The Cleveland Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Marla & Joseph Shafra…Ssir Cares IncThe Wuliger FoundationThe Lozick Family Fou…The Good Community Fo…Emma R Fox Char Trust…James and Susan Ratne…Giant Eagle Foundation
The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family FoundationOH26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · The Wuliger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Good Community Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Senkfor Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Senkfor 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 121 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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