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Shikiar Family Foundation at a glance

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Shikiar Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$242k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$401kEducation$322kArts & Culture$215kPhilanthropy$43kHealth$31kHuman Services$26kEnvironment$19kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE$115,417
THE DALTON SCHOOL$40,199
BARUCH COLLEGE FUND$25,000
SOLOMON R GUGGENLEIM FOUNDATION$10,000
BRIDGEHAMPTON MUSIC CHAMBER ASSOCIATES$6,000
PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM$5,800
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$3,600
PURE EARTH FOUNDATION$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$3,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$2,500
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,943
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$1,800
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$1,800
LUISA DIAZ FOUNDATION$1,250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $500 → 7%PROJECT EASTON INC: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $2k → 11%JESPY HOUSE: $10k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $720 → 11%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $1k → 7%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $9k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $8k → 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
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$950k · 26 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
42

Total granted

$950k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • TB
    THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $161k · revenue +5%
  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +41%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    3× · 2020–2022 · $46k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +67%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • HF
    HARMONY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +414%
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.

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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
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
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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7
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
8
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
9
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
10
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Arts for Abused Children of New York City Inc; the most unlike its peers is Imagine Inc. 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

58 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. 58 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $381,862 · OtherSTEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUENEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $36,100 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART+56 more: $134,673 · Other+56 moreTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $161,000 · EducationTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUNDDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $139,149 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INCLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $45,850 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM…SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $23,750 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGG…THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $22,300 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MU…SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO …BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $15,480 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEHAMPTON …HARMONY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONY FOUNDA…+7 more: $9,870 · Arts & Culture+7 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $31,955 · PhilanthropyImagine Inc: $5,500 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,600 · PhilanthropyPEOPLES SECURITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $16,700 · Human ServicesJESPY HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $2,520 · Human ServicesLong Island Cares Inc: $1,250 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $10,335 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,000 · ReligionAMPLEHARVESTORG INC: $3,600 · Food & NutritionMASBIA: $2,800 · Food & NutritionREACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$552,635Education$316,149Arts & Culture$147,250Philanthropy$47,855Human Services$31,970Religion$15,335Food & Nutrition$7,400

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 budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $161,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $139,149 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $45,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $36,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $31,955 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $23,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $22,300 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $16,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $15,480 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $10,335 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImagine Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $4,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMPLEHARVESTORG INC: $3,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEOPLES SECURITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA: $2,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $2,520 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDALS FOR PROGRESS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuisa Diaz Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAY ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSILVER ART PROJECTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION CYCLING NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Easton Development Partnership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $1,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Brown-Daub Founda…United Way of the Gre…Martin Guitar Charita…Arison Arts FoundationThe Ford FoundationAir Products Foundati…Firstenergy FoundationCommunity Foundation …National Philanthropi…Verizon Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY19× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Brown-Daub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation

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 Shikiar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shikiar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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