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Seryl & Charles Kushner Family Foundation at a glance

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Seryl & Charles Kushner Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$304kHealth$47kEnvironment$25kEducation$25kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOURO COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE$25,000
KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $5k → 20%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$288k · 8 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$288k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+52%

Still filing today

38%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalReligionOther
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

  • CP
    CHEVRAT PINTO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $214k
  • CS
    CHASHEK SHLOMOH CHESED FUND INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $24k
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UL
    URBAN LAND INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • CS
    Chashei Shlomoh Chesed Fund, Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
  • AA
    American and International Societies for Yad Vashem
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
3
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
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

—
6
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Aishel Hatzedek
International
9
Kollel Ameilim of Far Rockaway
Religion
10
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
11
Chesed Aharon
Philanthropy
12
Kenneth & Nira Abramowitz Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Als United Greater New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva Alumni Basketball Association Corporation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHEVRAT PINTO: $214,000 · OtherCHEVRAT PINTOURBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherURBAN LAND INSTITUTETOURO COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE: $25,000 · OtherTOURO COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINECHASHEK SHLOMOH CHESED FUND INC: $24,000 · OtherCHASHEK SHLOMOH CHESED FUND INCChashei Shlomoh Chesed Fund, Inc: $22,000 · OtherChashei Shlomoh Chesed Fund, IncAmerican and International Societies for Yad Vashem: $17,640 · Other+11 more: $33,100 · Other+11 moreMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 · EducationLIFE TIME FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $17,950 · Human ServicesKEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,000 · InternationalYESHIVA ALUMNI BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION CORPORATION: $1,000 · Religion
Other$360,740Education$24,000Human Services$22,950Philanthropy$22,000Crime & Legal$3,000International$1,000Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $17,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA ALUMNI BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION CORPORATION: $1,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds LIFE TIME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ALUMNI BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Seryl & Charles Kushner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seryl & Charles Kushner 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to Seryl & Charles Kushner 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 27 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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