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The Charles and Brenda Saka Family Foundation C/O Charles Saka

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.

$668k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$4.2MEducation$1.9MHuman Services$214kHealth$111kInternational$52kFood & Nutrition$13kPhilanthropy$12kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLEL YESHIVA$225,000
CONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEAL$58,404
ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVED LESS THAN 3000 SCHEDULE AVAILABLE$51,121
KEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST$32,000
Individual grant recipient$26,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM$19,800
BARKAI YESHIVAH$15,800
SEPHARDIC RABBINICAL COLLEGE$15,000
OHEL SIMCHA SUPER FUND$13,000
MAGEN DAVID YESHIVA$13,000
BEIT YAAKOV INC - TURNBERRY SYNAGOGUE$13,000
MORRIS FRANCO CANCER INSTITUTE$12,000
BEIT EDMOND SAFRA SYNAGOGUE$10,350
UJA$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $9k → 11%EZER ELIYAHU: $3k → 10%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 11%MITZVA MAN FOUNDATION CORP: $2k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $21k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $21k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $20k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $20k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $19k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $19k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $19k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $18k → 20%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 56 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
28

Total granted

$6.2M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+29%

Still filing today

34%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationReligionHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKETER INSTITUTE I
    3× · 2017–2021 · $302k · revenue +138% · 67% of their budget
  • SC
    SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +82%
  • SH
    SEPHARDIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $54k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • JF
    JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • CR
    CONGREGATION RODFEI ZEDEK
    one grant, 2022 · $43k
  • FK
    FOUNDATION KEREN HAYESHIVOT BEIT ELIYAHU
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates

Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution

Religion
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Keren Hatorah of Passaic- Clifton

To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.

Education
8
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
9
Keren Hayeshivot Fund Inc

Keren hayeshivot fund supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.

Philanthropy
10
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
11
Yeshiva Gedola Na'os Yaakov

A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study

Education
12
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah-Yeshivat Mizrachi Lbanim

A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sephardic Community Dayanut Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sephardic Heritage 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLEL YESHIVA: $2,063,804 · OtherHILLEL YESHIVACONG MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEAL: $887,827 · OtherCONG MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEALORGANIZATIONS RECEIVED LESS THAN 3000 SCHEDULE AVAILABLE: $640,382 · OtherORGANIZATIONS RECEIVED LESS THAN 3000 SCHEDULE AVAILABLEIndividual grant recipient: $514,007 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH: $199,900 · Other+59 more: $1,237,462 · Other+59 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKETER INSTITUTE I: $301,800 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $62,000 · EducationTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $51,500 · EducationILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $42,550 · EducationHAHAIM YESHIVAT SHALOM INC: $26,000 · EducationYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $16,000 · Education+3 more: $7,000 · EducationSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $156,682 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $34,400 · Human Services+2 more: $4,400 · Human ServicesSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC: $30,000 · ReligionSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $25,400 · ReligionSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC: $25,000 · ReligionKEREN YOM TOV INC: $18,000 · ReligionMAGEN ABRAHAM YESHIVA INC CONGREGATION BNEI OVADIA: $10,400 · ReligionTHE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC: $9,800 · ReligionSEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $9,601 · ReligionKEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST: $44,800 · PhilanthropySEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $18,052 · Youth Development
Other$5,543,382International$351,800Education$205,050Human Services$195,482Religion$128,201Philanthropy$44,800Youth Development$18,052

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKETER INSTITUTE I: $301,800 over 3y, 67% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $156,682 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $62,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSEPHARDIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $53,500 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetSAFE FOUNDATION INC: $53,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $51,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST: $44,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $42,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $34,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHAHAIM YESHIVAT SHALOM INC: $26,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $25,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC: $18,052 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN YOM TOV INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT SHAARE TORAH INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $13,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAGEN ABRAHAM YESHIVA INC CONGREGATION BNEI OVADIA: $10,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC: $9,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $9,601 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDARCHEI DAVID FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMATTAN BASSETER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIMHA ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEZER ELIYAHU INC CO MARCOS ZALTA: $2,600 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMITZVAH MAN FOUNDATION CORP: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA KETER TORAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT OR HACHAIM OF LAKEWOOD INC: $1,000 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HAKETER INSTITUTE I ↗
  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HAYESHIVOT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ILAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC MIKVEH OF MIDWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds HAHAIM YESHIVAT SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY DAYANUT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN YOM TOV 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.

The Amin and Lillian …Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Howard Hoffman & …Ralph J Harary Founda…The Ralph S Gindi Fam…Ic Hessed FoundationCabasso Family Founda…Chehebar Family Found…Jewish Communal FundIsaac & Marjorie Gind…The Setton FoundationThe Mamiye Foundation…
The Amin and Lillian Adjmi FoundationNY53.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Amin and Lillian Adjmi Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation Inc · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · The Ralph S Gindi Family Foundation · Ic Hessed Foundation · Cabasso Family Foundation · Chehebar Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · The Mamiye Foundation Inc

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 Charles and Brenda Saka Family Foundation C/O Charles Saka funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles and Brenda Saka Family Foundation C/O Charles Saka. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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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 87 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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