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Sjr Charitable Trust at a glance

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Sjr Charitable Trust

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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$145kHealth$95kEducation$59kPublic Benefit$25kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$540Environment$75Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLINK NOW FOUNDATION$22,518
FISTULA FOUNDATION$18,000
JDC$9,180
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$1,800
EDUCATION FOUNDATION$750
NATIONAL PTA$520
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $28k → 4%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $23k → 4%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $21k → 4%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $18k → 4%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $18k → 4%BLINK NOW FOUNDATION: $18k → 4%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

VT
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 9 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$307k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BF
    BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +43%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +57%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +18%
  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -25%
  • CS
    Community Support Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +82%
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
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
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
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
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.

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10
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
11
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Natal Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Support Network. 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 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $124,554 · Human ServicesBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFITVASSAR COLLEGE: $40,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEJDC: $27,180 · OtherJDCSANTA MONICA MALIBU UNIFIED SCHOOL: $13,863 · OtherSANTA MONICA MALIBU UNIFIED S…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+4 more: $5,115 · OtherThe Fistula Foundation: $93,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation+1 more: $1,800 · HealthVOTEORG: $24,518 · Civil RightsHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $10,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $9,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $1,800 · InternationalAMERICA GIVES INC: $10,800 · PhilanthropyNational Congress of Parents & Teachers: $2,525 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $750 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $500 · Education
Human Services$124,554Other$96,158Health$94,800Civil Rights$24,518International$20,800Philanthropy$10,800Education$3,775

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $124,554 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $93,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOTEORG: $24,518 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Support Network: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Congress of Parents & Teachers: $2,525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Education Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $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.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Sjr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sjr Charitable Trust. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 19 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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