How much does Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation give?

Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $162,387 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), International (14%), Health (14%).

Who are Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($198k), Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc ($102k), Beth El Synagogue of New Rochelle Center ($51k).

Does Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation based?

Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation

Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation

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.

$162k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

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 2025.

Philanthropy$213kInternational$140kHealth$138kHuman Services$103kReligion$96kArts & Culture$59kCivil Rights$57kEnvironment$52kOther$0

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $76k
$10k–50k4 grants · $87k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK	$40,000
WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES	$25,000
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE CENTER	$11,687
ISRAEL POLICY FORUM	$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL	$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER	$3,600
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$3,500
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND	$3,500
HIAS	$3,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK	$2,500
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY	$2,500
MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN	$2,500

02The need

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, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$947k · 51 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$947k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+36%

Still filing today

88%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +39%
WJ
WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +65%
IP
ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +157%

Funded once

BE
BETH EL SYANGAGUE CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $5k
SA
Swim Across America Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +25%
UH
UJA-FEDERATION HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2017 · $1k

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.

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Stony Brook Urology 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 American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northshore Concert Band. 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

52 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. 52 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

35/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$199,030Health$186,750International$173,300Other$260,096Arts & Culture$59,000Environment$51,500Education$42,000

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

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 FundNY11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylvia & Robert Scher Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home