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Shaftel Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$259k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$688kArts & Culture$161kReligion$53kRecreation & Sports$51kHealth$46kYouth Development$40kHuman Services$13kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 55 grants below total $253,475, the rows itemized in this filing. The $259,475 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yale University$125,000
Unitarian Church of all Souls$10,000
Unitarian Church of all Souls$10,000
Vassar College$10,000
Central Park Conservancy Inc$10,000
New York City Ballet$10,000
Cheshire Academy$7,000
Kingsley Trust Association$5,000
Fiver Children's Foundation Inc$5,000
Yale University$5,000
Hear Now Music Festival$5,000
WNET$5,000
Weill Cornell Medical Center$3,000
Roundabout Theatre Company$3,000
NYU Stern Business School$2,750
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 47 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
11

Total granted

$845k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+20%

Still filing today

72%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +192%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +0%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • LR
    LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • GN
    Greater NY Councils BSA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • WC
    Weill Cornell Medical College
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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.

03Its 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
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
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
8
Western New England University

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…

Education
9
Dickinson College

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

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Fordham University

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.

Education
12
Columbia University Press

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 66 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Yale University: $314,472 · OtherYale UniversityUNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALL SOULS: $50,000 · OtherUNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALL SOULSVASSAR COLLEGE: $40,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGETHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY: $34,500 · OtherTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY+28 more: $86,523 · Other+28 moreKINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION: $102,500 · EducationKINGSLEY TRUST AS…Colby-Sawyer College: $10,000 · EducationColby-Sawyer Coll…KENT PLACE SCHOOL: $6,000 · Education+9 more: $16,250 · Education+9 moreNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $40,600 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BA…HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL: $23,500 · Arts & CultureHEAR NOW MUSIC F…WNET: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWNETROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEAT…American Museum of Natural History: $8,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum …NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC …METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $11,650 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthWashington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $2,000 · HealthWASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,800 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyETHAN MILLER SONG FOUNDATION INC: $600 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $260 · Philanthropy
Other$525,495Education$134,750Arts & Culture$127,250Recreation & Sports$40,000Youth Development$30,000Health$14,500Philanthropy$7,660

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 budgetKINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION: $102,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $40,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY: $34,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL: $23,500 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetWNET: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $3,023 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOVERSEAS PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORY'S PRESERVATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHAN MILLER SONG FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $260 over 1y, 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 KINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
  • Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Washington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIPP 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…FjcJewish Communal FundColeman Family Charit…The Wenden FoundationThe Big Wood Foundati…The Kestrel FoundationThe Block Grausman Fu…Ponagansett Foundatio…Murray & Susan Haber …The Jaffe Family Foun…The Apple Lane Founda…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY22.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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