· Private foundation
Shaftel Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $241,475 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,475 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yale University | $125,000 |
| Unitarian Church of all Souls | $10,000 |
| New York City Ballet | $10,000 |
| Vassar College | $10,000 |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $10,000 |
| Cheshire Academy | $7,000 |
| Fiver Children's Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Kingsley Trust Association | $5,000 |
| Hear Now Music Festival | $5,000 |
| WNET | $5,000 |
| Yale University | $5,000 |
| Weill Cornell Medical Center | $3,000 |
| Roundabout Theatre Company | $3,000 |
| NYU Stern Business School | $2,750 |
| Colby-Sawyer College | $2,500 |
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.
50 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +192%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- FCFive! Children's Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LRLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
- GNGreater NY Councils BSAone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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. 51 of the 76 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 KINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds KIPP NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · The Big Wood Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Block Grausman Fund · Ponagansett Foundation Inc · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Jaffe Family Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830
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.