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SYLVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION CO Vrona & Van Schuyler CPAs PLLC at a glance

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SYLVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION CO Vrona & Van Schuyler CPAs PLLC

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$97kInternational$81kEducation$51kArts & Culture$49kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$997k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$10,000
92ND STREET Y$10,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$7,000
HSS FOUNDATION$5,000
Alzelheimers Association$5,000
MVP Miracle House Foundation Inc$3,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$3,000
Community Mayors Inc$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Strength to Strength: $2k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 15 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$284k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+64%

Still filing today

53%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +31%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    5× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +115%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MW
    MACCABI WORLD UNION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -16%
  • MS
    MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +64%
  • PJ
    PARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Jerusalem Connection
—
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
5
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
—
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
10
Israel Kuzminsky Memorial Foundation
—
11
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc
—
12
The Foundation for the Preservation of the History of the Jewish People in
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mvp Miracle House Foundation 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 32 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE: $45,000 · OtherSUNY MARITIME COLLEGEAlzelheimers Association: $30,000 · OtherAlzelheimers AssociationHSS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · OtherHSS FOUNDATIONOpera Night Long Island: $10,000 · OtherOpera Night Long IslandHADASSAH: $8,500 · OtherHADASSAHTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $5,500 · Other+15 more: $17,700 · Other+15 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $40,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFEN…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $29,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN…AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL INC: $12,000 · InternationalAMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL…THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $62,500 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND Y…+1 more: $1,800 · ReligionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyMVP MIRACLE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $20,000 · EducationLOCAL 272 SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $3,500 · EducationMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 · Environment
Other$134,200International$81,000Religion$64,300Philanthropy$24,000Education$23,500Youth Development$10,000Environment$2,500

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 budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $62,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL INC: $12,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMACCABI WORLD UNION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMVP MIRACLE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOCAL 272 SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $3,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MAYORS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR REMOTE JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL 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.

  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds PROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds MACCABI WORLD UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds MVP MIRACLE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL 272 SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MAYORS INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds STRENGTH TO STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR REMOTE JEWISH COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 FundFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · 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 SYLVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION CO Vrona & Van Schuyler CPAs PLLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SYLVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION CO Vrona & Van Schuyler CPAs PLLC. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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.

    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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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