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Shirley M Arbesfeld Foundation Inc at a glance

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Shirley M Arbesfeld Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$871kReligion$220kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL$80,000
EZRA ACADEMY$75,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH$25,000
SHALOM TORAH ACADEMY$10,000
HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY$10,000
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.

US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($190k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $40k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $80k → 13%YESHIVA TIFERET TORAH: $5k → 14%YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $10k → 17%BE'ER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES: $10k → 20%SPACE OF MIND: $10k → 11%SHALOM TORAH ACADEMY: $10k → 6%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $35k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $80k → 13%KATZ HILLEL DAY SCHOOL: $8k → 11%SHALOM TORAH ACADEMY: $10k → 6%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $35k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $75k → 13%SHALOM TORAH ACADEMY: $5k → 6%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $25k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%CHENIICH YEHUDI: $5k → 20%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $25k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%CHINUCH YEHUDI: $5k → 20%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $25k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $10k → 6%YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET CENTER: $5k → 6%YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLIS HILLS - WINDSOR PARK: $5k → 13%EZRA ACADEMY: $75k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 6%EZRA ACADEMY: $75k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 6%EZRA ACADEMY: $75k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 6%EZRA ACADEMY: $25k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 6%EZRA ACADEMY: $25k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 6%EZRA ACADEMY: $25k → 13%HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $25k → 6%EZRA ACADEMY: $25k → 13%YESHIVA HAR TORAH: $8k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $50k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $50k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $50k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $10k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $10k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $10k → 13%ANSHE SHOLOM CHABAD: $10k → 13%STARS OF ISRAEL: $10k → 13%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.

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($190k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$190k · 7 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+108%

Still filing today

13%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionOther
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

  • YP
    YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $328k
  • EA
    EZRA ACADEMY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $325k
  • HA
    HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $195k

Funded once

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BH
    BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +68%
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOL: $328,000 · OtherYESHIVA PRIMARY & JR HIGH SCHOOLEZRA ACADEMY: $325,000 · OtherEZRA ACADEMYHEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY: $195,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTYIndividual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH: $150,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH+12 more: $104,500 · Other+12 moreYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationKATZ HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $8,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET CENTER: $5,000 · Religion
Other$1,292,500Education$18,000Religion$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKATZ HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 23% 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 YESHIVA HAR TORAH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC ↗
  • Who funds KATZ HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIFERET CENTER ↗

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 FundCenter for Initiative…Caroline & Joseph S G…Our Jewish Children I…United Jewish Appeal-…National Philanthropi…The Ojc FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Communal FundNY16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · Our Jewish Children Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ojc Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Shirley M Arbesfeld Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shirley M Arbesfeld Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Shirley M Arbesfeld Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Shirley M Arbesfeld 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 20 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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