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Shaykin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAR ACADEMY | $75,500 |
| YOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL | $30,146 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| RIVERDALE JEWISH CENTER | $2,900 |
| RIVERDALE HATAZIAH | $1,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $1,000 |
| FOUNDATION STONE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $500 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $180 |
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 (FY18–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC2× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +254%
- SSSHEFA SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +431%
University of Chicago2× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- HHHEICHAL HATORAHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +42%
- RZRELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +47%
- FOFRIENDS OF JWB JEWISH CHAPLAINS FUNDone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To further jewish education in israel
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To cultivate students' intellectual, moral and creative capacities to the fullest by transmitting the necessary skills and methods that enable students to master all areas of torah scholarship.
Support religious jewish instituions in furthering torah study
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Dog Rescue Inc. 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 28 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 79 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 ALEPH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT BNEI AKIVA OF THE US AND CANADA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDNA Y SCHWARTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SALANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT MAHARAT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE FRIENDS OF HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Goldberg Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Anne and Natalio Fridman Foundation · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Landowne & Bloom Foundation Inc · Hoffen Family Foundation · The Applebaum Foundation Inc
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 Shaykin Family Foundation 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.
- Chai 4EVER Inc — 2% of income from government
- Heichal Hatorah — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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