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Sheldon H Lischin Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sheldon H Lischin Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$5k
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 2023.

Health$17kAnimals$15kReligion$9kEducation$4kRecreation & Sports$2kCommunity Improvement$1kFood & Nutrition$600Human Services$552Other$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,550
Median grant
2
States reached
$131k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STABLE RECOVERY$5,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$1,550
ANCRAMDALE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION$1,050
PS 58 PTA$40
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 (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $500 → 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

MN
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
KY
NC
DC
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 7 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
29

Total granted

$18k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+46%

Still filing today

43%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
AnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TR
    THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    2× · 2019–2022 · $1k · revenue +52%
  • FL
    Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $787 · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TA
    THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +153%
  • BH
    BRONX HOUSE EMANUEL CAMPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +73%
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
The Jockey Club

The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…

Recreation & Sports
2
Take 2 Second Career Thoroughbred Program Inc

The take2 second career thoroughbred program inc is committed to promoting and developing second careers for racehorses when they have retired from racing.

Animals
3
National Thoroughbred Racing Association Inc

The ntra is a broadly defined membership association that is charged with increasing the popularity, welfare and integrity of thoroughbred racing.

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4
Breeders' Cup Limited

To conduct the breeders' cup world championships at the highest levels of quality, safety and integrity and to promote the growth of thoroughbred breeding, racing and sales through proactive leadership, innovation and service.

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5
Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Inc

The organization is committed to the advancement of research to enhance the safety and health of the horse.

Animals
6
Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc

TCA's mission is to fund and facilitate the support of Thoroughbreds and the people who care for them.

Animals
7
California Thoroughbred Horsemen's Foundation Inc

The organization provides health and welfare benefits to individuals and their families who work in occupations directly related to the care of thoroughbred horses in california.

Membership Benefit
8
National Reining Horse Association

The corporation is formed to promte and encourage public interest in agricultural and ranching through reining horse shows and programs; to develop standards and performance and judging of reinging horses; to encourage the development and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame

The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…

Arts & Culture
10
Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority Inc

Subject to federal trade commission oversight, the horseracing integrity and safety authority is charged with recommending and implementing uniform safety and integrity rules in thoroughbred racing. continued on schedule o. hisa is…

Community Improvement
11
Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
California Thoroughbred Breeders Association

To create an environment of education for the membership so as to bring about the betterment of the conditions for those involved in the agricultural production of california-bred thoroughbreds; to assist in all ways appropriate, including…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 39 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $10,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $9,180 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELIndividual grant recipient: $2,165 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPS 58 PTA: $1,792 · OtherPS 58 PTAIndividual grant recipient: $1,757 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+20 more: $7,924 · Other+20 moreTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $4,865 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCA…THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,787 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RETIREM…Wildlife Conservation Society: $1,015 · AnimalsWildlife Conservatio…Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc: $787 · AnimalsFinger Lakes Thoroug…NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $757 · AnimalsNEW VOCATIONS RACEHO…STABLE RECOVERY INC: $5,000 · HealthSTABLE RECO…BRONX HOUSE EMANUEL CAMPS INC: $1,075 · Recreation & SportsMILLBROOK HORSE TRIALS INC: $900 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $25 · Recreation & SportsANCRAMDALE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,050 · Community ImprovementINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $500 · EducationBHS PTA Inc: $250 · EducationADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $105 · EducationPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $500 · Human Services
Other$32,818Animals$9,211Health$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Community Improvement$1,050Education$855Human Services$500

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 budgetTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $4,865 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,787 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX HOUSE EMANUEL CAMPS INC: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCRAMDALE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,050 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $1,015 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK HORSE TRIALS INC: $900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFinger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc: $787 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $757 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBHS PTA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld TEAM Sports: $25 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.

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 Charles and Mary …Blue Grass Community …American Express Foun…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…
The Charles and Mary Heider Family FoundationNE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Sheldon H Lischin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldon H Lischin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–15%
    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 Sheldon H Lischin Foundation Inc 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 39 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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