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The Charatan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Charatan Family 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.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$460kArts & Culture$404kEducation$220kReligion$202kYouth Development$147kHealth$131kInternational$53kPhilanthropy$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MU$55,300
SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE$30,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV-THE PHYLLIS ALBS$25,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$18,000
THE NEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS$7,500
THE BASS$6,500
LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$5,000
ADL$5,000
HOME FOR HOMELESS$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL C$5,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$5,000
THE GREEN VISION NY INC$5,000
PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE$2,875
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 (FY17–25, $364k) 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.

area typical 11%CORE: $360 → 14%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORP: $500 → 12%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORP: $250 → 12%MISASKIM: $540 → 20%LA ARETZ: $5k → 20%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $100k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $100k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $31k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $30k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $25k → 17%SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $100 → 17%UKRAINIAN HABITAT FUND: $180 → 17%BELEV ECHAD: $500 → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $50 → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $750 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $350 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
OK
LA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 67 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
113

Total granted

$1.5M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+11%

Still filing today

51%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +67%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    7× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +25%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • S
    SELFHELP
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • UF
    UJA FEDERATIONFOR THE HURRICANE HAR
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • JP
    JEWISH PARTISAN EDUCATION FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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 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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
6
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
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
9
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
10
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
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 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

96 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. 96 of the 197 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/96
Grantees still filing
61/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV-THE PHYLLIS ALBS: $200,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIV-THE PHYLLIS ALBSTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $144,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLESELFHELP: $100,000 · OtherSELFHELPCHABAD OF SOUTHAMPTON INC: $70,602 · OtherCHABAD OF SOUTHAMPTON INCLINCOLN CENTER CORPORATE FUND: $64,800 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER CORPORATE FUNDJpef: $56,000 · OtherJpef+123 more: $393,576 · Other+123 moreSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $340,499 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMMUNITY SER…ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,750 · Human Services+9 more: $9,330 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $255,314 · Arts & CultureThe United States H…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,360 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM…MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $15,997 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $27,320 · Arts & Culture+16 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $22,300 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $15,250 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $14,600 · HealthTHE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Health+11 more: $7,340 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $27,250 · PhilanthropyAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,800 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $16,780 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $4,100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $1,800 · InternationalTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,000 · International+2 more: $680 · InternationalAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5,000 · EducationCLEARY FOUNDATION FOR THE DEAF INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE MICHAEL BOLTON CHARITIES INC: $4,000 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+4 more: $1,200 · Education
Other$1,028,978Human Services$365,579Arts & Culture$328,991Health$62,490Philanthropy$35,950International$28,160Education$18,700

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 budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $340,499 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $255,314 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,360 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $27,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $22,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $16,780 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $15,997 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER: $15,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $14,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA-ARETZ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLEARY FOUNDATION FOR THE DEAF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $4,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL BOLTON CHARITIES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $3,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTASH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY GAMES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL RESCUE COALITION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREUT USA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELIE WIESEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS HEALTH SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWTA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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 SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
  • Who funds ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE GREEN VISION NY INC ↗
  • Who funds LA-ARETZ ↗

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 FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Arnold S & Madale…Indian Trail Charitab…The Feil Family Found…FjcSwieca Children Found…Nash Family FoundationUnited Jewish Appeal-…Greater Miami Jewish …The Hyde and Watson F…Td Charitable Foundat…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Arnold S & Madaleine Penner Family F · Indian Trail Charitable Foundation Inc · The Feil Family Foundation (Formerly Louis & Gertrude Feil Foundation Inc) · Fjc · Swieca Children Foundation · Nash Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Td Charitable 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 The Charatan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charatan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: 13% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Cantata Singers Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 197 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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