· Private foundation
The Irving and Geraldine Schaffer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $50,000 |
| TRICKLE UP | $40,000 |
| PLEASANTVILLE COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE | $31,500 |
| REAP | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOX CITIES | $15,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $15,000 |
| BANK STREET SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OFFICE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEW GEORGIA PROJECT | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $240k · revenue +70%
- RIREAP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +69%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- PPCSone grant, 2019 · $55k
- RREAPone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TATHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
86 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. 86 of the 165 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds REAP INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW WE VOTE ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Open Society Institute · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fjc · The Ford Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Irving and Geraldine Schaffer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irving and Geraldine Schaffer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Reap Inc: 46% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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