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Sholl-Freede Foundation

To provide a more compassionate and sustainable future for people all around the world through preservation of the planet, education, advocacy, and the protection and healing of vulnerable communities including children, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt from federal income…

$517k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$188k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$615kEducation$465kHealth$210kHuman Services$200kCivil Rights$136kArts & Culture$85kRecreation & Sports$60kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $238k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$156k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Foundation for the Defense of Democracie$187,500
To Be Honest$50,000
Tikva Childrens Home$40,000
Common Circles Inc$25,000
The Gaza Children Village$25,000
Lucky Duck Foundation$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Emilio Nares Foundation$20,000
Sabal Enabling Disable Children$15,000
Canary NGO Ltd$15,000
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficki$15,000
Project Peanut Butter$15,000
Information & Referral Federation of LA$10,000
Airbnborg$10,000
Rachels Challenge$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A Breeze of Hope: $5k → 10%Hands On Tzedakah: $10k → 11%Rachel's Challenge: $50k → 8%GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL: $57k → 17%Rachels Challenge: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER CHICAGO: $20k → 14%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
DE
KS
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$775k · 5 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
27

Total granted

$775k
$766k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
0%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    TIKVA CORP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $465k · revenue +583%
  • US
    UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +119%
  • TB
    TO BE HONEST
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +288%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • WO
    WORLD OF CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -90%
  • GI
    GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · 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.

1
Impact Forum Foundation

The Impact Forum is an exclusive network of philanthropists. We are connecting philanthropists that support each others initiatives and collaborate to empower and meet with exceptional non-profit organizations to fight antisemitism,…

Philanthropy
2
For Zions Sake

Global disaster relief, humanitarian aid and comfort for israel and the nations.

International
3
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc

Friends of united hatzalah, inc .(fouh) raises and provides funding to not-for-profit organizations that provide medical and trauma-related first responder services in israel and around the world. fouh focuses the majority of its support…

Arts & Culture
4
Global Jewry Ltd

To connect and strengthen the global jewish community by bridging internal divides and addressing external challenges. we use social media and offer a number of "signature programs" to achieve our goals.

Religion
5
Sherit Isroel
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6
Belev Echad Inc

Belev echad is an international nonprofit dedicated to restoring the wounded men and women of the idf back to life through physical, medical, legal, emotional, and financial support. our extensive therapies and programs help the soldiers…

Human Services
7
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
Foundation Stone Institute Inc

To promote a positive relationship between catholics and israelis.

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11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Bshvil Hamachar 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

42 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. 42 of the 52 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
19/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIKVA CORP: $465,000 · EducationTIKVA CORPTO BE HONEST: $60,000 · EducationTO BE HONESTJuan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationFoundation for the Defense of Democracie: $187,500 · OtherFoundation for the Defense of Democ…WORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $60,000 · OtherWORLD OF CHILDREN INCFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOU…Common Circles Inc: $25,000 · OtherGAZA CHILDREN VILLAGE: $25,000 · OtherUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $60,000 · OtherUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATIONEIGHTEEN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherEIGHTEEN FOUNDATION+15 more: $153,498 · Other+15 moreFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $100,000 · InternationalFoundation fo…FRIENDS OF BSHVIL HAMACHAR INC: $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF BS…THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHE INTERNATI…CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · InternationalCHERNOBYL CHI…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TH…PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER: $15,000 · InternationalPROJECT PEANU…THE LITTLE MARKET INC: $10,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $130,000 · HealthAMERICAN FR…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK …CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINA…Emilio Nares Foundation: $20,000 · HealthEmilio Nare…THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthRACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $60,000 · Human ServicesGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $57,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $20,000 · Human ServicesHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCapital for Good USA: $50,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureARTOLUTION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNOAHS ARC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$560,000Other$610,998International$230,000Health$200,000Human Services$152,000Philanthropy$110,000Arts & Culture$95,000

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 budgetTIKVA CORP: $465,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $60,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTO BE HONEST: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $57,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEIGHTEEN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCapital for Good USA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BSHVIL HAMACHAR INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJuan Felipe Escobar Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARTOLUTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC: $18,880 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanary NGO Ltd: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER TEL HASHOMER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOAHS ARC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LITTLE MARKET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMBAT HATE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart to Heart Global Cardiac Care: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 FundJewish Community Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Tides FoundationThe Snider FoundationNational Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…California Community …Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · The Snider Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Sholl-Freede Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sholl-Freede Foundation 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 52 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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