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Sylvan Schefler Trust Foundation at a glance

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Sylvan Schefler Trust Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$122kArts & Culture$6kHealth$1kEducation$680Science & Tech$500Recreation & Sports$400Philanthropy$280Human Services$216Other$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$9,235
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$210
JEWISH MUSEUM$125
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$100
TORAH FUND$72
HAR ZION TEMPLE$50
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 (FY17–22, $216) 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%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $180 → 14%DOROT: $36 → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 12 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$128k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +58%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    5× · 2019–2023 · $605 · revenue +30%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $400 · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISCOVERY
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $380
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCE- MENT OF TORAH EDUCATION IN ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $360 · revenue -73%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
11
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peconic Public Broadcasting. 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $121,045 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC+18 more: $3,482 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,175 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $605 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $533 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $440 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $375 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $160 · Arts & CulturePAUL KOSTER MEMORIAL BENEFIT INC: $400 · EducationCornell University: $280 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $400 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCE- MENT OF TORAH EDUCATION IN ISRAEL: $360 · ReligionJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $180 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $36 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 · HealthAMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS: $100 · Health
Other$124,527Arts & Culture$5,288Education$680Recreation & Sports$400Religion$360Human Services$216Health$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $605 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL KOSTER MEMORIAL BENEFIT INC: $400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCE- MENT OF TORAH EDUCATION IN ISRAEL: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $36 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sylvan Schefler Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylvan Schefler Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%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
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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