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Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation

To invest in non-profit organizations that advance smart ideas, promote positive societal change and improve lives.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$48k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$33k0%
FY20232$43k50%
FY20222$40k0%
FY20212$40k50%
FY20208$210k63%
FY20199$267k78%
FY20183$55kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$244kHuman Services$215kCommunity Improvement$200kPhilanthropy$122kReligion$81kHealth$80kPublic Benefit$40kCivil Rights$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fii - National$100,00010%
Greater Ny Foundation$100,00049%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$90,00060%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$80,0001n/a
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$54,00030%
Park Avenue Synagogue - New York NY$54,0001n/a
The Reason Foundation$25,00020%
Institute for Free Speech$25,00011%
Gideons Promise Inc$25,00011%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc$25,00010%
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All grantees of Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fii - National$100,00010%
Greater Ny Foundation$100,00049%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$90,00060%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$80,0001n/a
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$54,00030%
Park Avenue Synagogue - New York NY$54,0001n/a
The Reason Foundation$25,00020%
Institute for Free Speech$25,00011%
Gideons Promise Inc$25,00011%
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc$25,00010%
Cato Institute$25,00010%
Horace Mann School$25,00010%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$18,0001n/a
Third Option Foundation$15,00010%
Bowery Residents Committee Inc$10,00010%
Park Avenue Synagogue$8,7731n/a
The Harvard Independent Inc$8,50014%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFii - National: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Ny Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetSanctuary for Families Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $54,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Reason Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Free Speech: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGideons Promise Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetManhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCato Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThird Option Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBowery Residents Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harvard Independent Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation

How much does Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation give?
Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $48,000, out of $50,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Human Services (20%), Community Improvement (19%).
Who are Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Fii - National ($100k), Greater Ny Foundation ($100k), Sanctuary for Families Inc ($90k).
Does Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation based?
Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation is based in CA.

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 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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