How much does The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust give?

The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust reported 28 grants totaling $357,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (23%), Environment (19%), Animals (18%).

Who are The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($430k), North Shore Animal League America Inc ($160k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($125k).

Does The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust 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 The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.

Where is The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust based?

The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust is based in NJ.

The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust

The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust

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.

$357k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$513kEnvironment$432kAnimals$391kHealth$280kReligion$270kHuman Services$160kEducation$92kArts & Culture$49kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $43k
$10k–50k17 grants · $264k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC	$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES	$24,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$23,000
WARNER LIBRARY	$22,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC	$20,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (IMF)	$20,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC	$20,000
CARE	$15,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER	$15,000
VOICE OF TRIUMPH MINISTRIES INC	$15,000
WATERAID AMERICA INC	$10,000
CAMFED USA FOUNDATION	$10,000
MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH	$10,000
WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND INC	$10,000

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 32 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+34%

Still filing today

69%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalAnimalsHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $430k · revenue +43%
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +15%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +89%

Funded once

SA
SALVATION ARMY & ITS COMPONENTS
one grant, 2021 · $20k
IP
IRVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $8k
NE
NATIONAL EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +102%

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.

Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

Veterinarians Without Borders Usa

Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…

International

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 30 of the 45 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)

30/30

Grantees still filing

23/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$650,750International$486,000Environment$432,405Animals$385,000Health$187,000Arts & Culture$49,000Religion$40,000

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen Schlaffer Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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