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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$244kHuman Services$215kCommunity Improvement$200kPhilanthropy$122kReligion$81kHealth$80kPublic Benefit$40kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $48,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $50,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthr of NY$18,000
Sanctuary for Families$15,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation$15,000
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 (FY19–21, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FII - National: $100k → 10%Gideons Promise Inc: $25k → 13%Third Option Foundation: $15k → 6%Bowery Residents Committee Inc: $10k → 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.
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$269k · 4 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$269k
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
69%

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
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GN
    GREATER NY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue +282%
  • SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +12%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -92%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $80k
  • PA
    Park Avenue Synagogue - New York NY
    one grant, 2019 · $54k
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
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
2
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary for Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Harvard Independent 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

16 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. 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of H…THE REASON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONHorace Mann School: $25,000 · EducationHorace Mann SchoolFII - NATIONAL: $100,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES IN…GIDEONS PROMISE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGIDEONS PROMISE INCTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATIONBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $143,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Commun…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $54,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $80,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIG…Park Avenue Synagogue - New York NY: $54,000 · OtherPark Avenue Synag…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $18,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAG…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $8,773 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAG…GREATER NY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER NY…INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH: $25,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Public BenefitFJC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalThe Harvard Independent Inc: $8,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$250,000Human Services$240,000Philanthropy$197,000Other$160,773Community Improvement$100,000Public Benefit$75,000Crime & Legal$25,000Arts & Culture$8,500

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $143,000 over 3y, 0.0% of 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 budgetFJC: $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
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 FundSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shuchman Lesser Foundation co Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of 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 · 0–15%
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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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 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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