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Shomof Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$54kEducation$36kInternational$28kReligion$22kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$8kCommunity Improvement$5kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRAGERU$18,100
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$15,150
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$8,500
CURING KIDS CANCER$5,150
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JGIVE - FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA$5,000
CITY OF HOPE$2,500
WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT$2,500
STAND BY ME$2,300
HOLLENBECK COMMUNITY POLICE STATION$1,000
MAAGALIM COMMUNITY CIRCLES$1,000
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 (FY23–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%CURING KIDS CANCER: $8k → 14%CURING KIDS CANCER: $5k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $519 → 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

NY
NJ
CA
KS
TN
GA
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 12 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$142k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +10%
  • EW
    EAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +89%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • LT
    LARGER THAN LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -40%
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 Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

—
2
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
3
Sherit Isroel
—
4
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
5
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
8
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
10
University of Judaism Foundation
—
11
Jewish Jewels Inc

Spreading the gospel of the Messiah, Yeshua, especially to Jewish audiences, by the use of books, television, and other media.

Religion
12
American Friends of Migdal Ohr

Migdal Ohr means "tower of light" in Hebrew and serves as a beacon of hope to thousands of orphaned and neglected children. We serve over 10,000 children every year and raise them to become thriving, successful adults. Migdal Ohr gives…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Midnight Mission. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $21,635 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLARGER THAN LIFE: $21,000 · OtherLARGER THAN LIFEIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY: $5,500 · OtherBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILYCITY OF HOPE: $4,500 · Other+6 more: $8,100 · Other+6 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $27,850 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS O…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,895 · EducationPRAGER UNIVE…EAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · ReligionEAGLES WIN…YOUNG SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,400 · ReligionYOUNG SEPH…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,500 · HealthST JUDE C…STAND BY ME INC: $2,300 · HealthSTAND BY …MAAGALIM COMMUNITY CIRCLES INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCuring Kids Cancer Inc: $13,150 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,500 · Human Services+1 more: $519 · Human ServicesJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$101,235International$37,850Education$25,895Religion$22,400Health$20,300Human Services$18,169Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $27,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,895 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCuring Kids Cancer Inc: $13,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAGEN AM USA INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL NATURE AND HERITAGE FOUNDATI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAAGALIM COMMUNITY CIRCLES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $519 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shomof Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shomof Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–10%
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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How do I get to Shomof Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shomof Family 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 27 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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