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The Garchik 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.

$437k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$947kHealth$746kArts & Culture$73kHuman Services$68kPublic Benefit$31kInternational$28kYouth Development$19kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$643k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boca Raton Regional Hospital$200,000
Lynn University$60,000
Johns Hopkins University$30,000
Found for Defense of Democracies$25,000
Love Serving Autism$10,000
BLOOM Here Inc$10,000
Friends of the IDF$10,000
Autism Speaks$10,000
Our Minds Matter$10,000
US Holocaust Memorial Museum$10,000
Breast Cancer Research Foundation$7,500
Selfhelp Community Services$5,000
United Hatzalah$5,000
Kavod$5,000
Ruth and Normal Rales Jewish Serv$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Public Allies: $3k → 17%Kavod: $5k → 12%Selfhelp Community Services: $5k → 17%Kavod: $5k → 12%Love Serving Autism: $10k → 11%Kavod: $3k → 12%BLOOM Here Inc: $10k → 14%Love Serving Autism: $10k → 11%Kavod: $3k → 12%BLOOM Here Inc: $10k → 14%Selfhelp Community Services: $5k → 17%Love Serving Autism: $5k → 11%Kavod: $3k → 12%BLOOM Here Inc: $5k → 14%Selfhelp Community Services: $3k → 17%Selfhelp Community Services: $3k → 17%Selfhelp Community Services: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 28 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
15

Total granted

$1.9M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-25%

Still filing today

96%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $530k · revenue +44%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +42%
  • LU
    LYNN UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Charlie Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • PB
    Palm Beach County Food Bank Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
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
3
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
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
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
12
Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research Inc

Prim&r advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research. prim&r accomplishes this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Selfhelp Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nextgen Stem Fellowship Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%8%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr15%35%20–35yr9%15%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%2%<5yr16%38%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr9%10%35–55yr12%35%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,002

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROSSROADS EDUCATORS INC — $725,000 · EducationCROSSROADS EDUCATORS INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYLYNN UNIVERSITY INC — $100,000 · EducationLYNN UNIVERSITY INC+5 more — $14,000 · EducationBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $530,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital IncAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $80,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCOUR MINDS MATTER — $40,000 · HealthOUR MINDS MATTER+6 more — $27,200 · HealthBLOOM HERE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLOVE SERVING AUTISM INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesKAVOD — $17,500 · Human ServicesSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $17,500 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCivic Life Project Inc — $2,500 · Arts & CultureFound for Defense of Democracies — $25,000 · OtherThe Charlie Fund — $10,000 · OtherRuth and Normal Rales Jewish Serv — $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherAMERICA GIVES INC — $5,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — $17,500 · OtherPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 · OtherSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC — $10,000 · OtherGIFFORDS — $7,500 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $7,500 · OtherBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $5,000 · Other+10 more — $22,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $20,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $5,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC — $2,500 · InternationalTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$949,000Health$677,200Human Services$87,500Arts & Culture$72,500Other$140,000International$27,500Public Safety & Disaster$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROSSROADS EDUCATORS INC — $725,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $530,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR MINDS MATTER — $40,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOM HERE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLOVE SERVING AUTISM INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAVOD — $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH INC — $7,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNextgen Stem Fellowship Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSONG FOR CHARLIE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER WASHINGTON — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAVE INC DBA PARENTS AMPLIFYING VOICES IN EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ALLIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Life Project Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…New Venture FundNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Garchik Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Center for Child Counseling Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Civic Life Project Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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