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The Joyce & Sanford Bookstein Foundation at a glance

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The Joyce & Sanford Bookstein Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2017
34
Grants FY2017
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

70% of The Joyce & Sanford Bookstein Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Joyce & Sanford Bookstein Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $53k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

19
’17
8
’18
10
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$364kReligion$39kHuman Services$14kHealth$13kArts & Culture$11kPublic Benefit$8kFood & Nutrition$4kCivil Rights$400Other$0
02FY2017 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k33 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$200
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NENY$30,000
CONGREGATION BETH EMETH$7,035
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$4,000
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (SPAC)$1,800
WMHT$1,500
AVON WALK FOR BREAST CANCER$1,000
THE FOOD PANTRIES$1,000
DAUGHTERS OF SARAH$860
FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE$500
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$500
CAPITAL REPITORY THEATER$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
NE JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH$500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$420
NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES$250
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 (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $288 → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $5k → 14%THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $2k → 14%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY OF SERVICES: $650 → 14%NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES: $250 → 14%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
NY
MA
CA
MD
DC
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$188k · 18 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
23

Total granted

$188k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+44%

Still filing today

39%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +39%
  • WE
    WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CR
    CAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -65%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +26%
  • AW
    AVON WALK FOR BREAST CANCER
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

25 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. 25 of the 44 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
23/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $88,300 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $88,300 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $88,267 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $9,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF NENY: $90,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NENYCONGREGATION BETH EMETH: $30,744 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH EMETH15 LOVE: $11,525 · Other15 LOVEWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $7,500 · OtherDAUGHTERS OF SARAH: $7,110 · Other+20 more: $18,620 · Other+20 moreCAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY: $5,250 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,800 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $900 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $288 · Human ServicesFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200 · HealthNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $200 · HealthAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $200 · HealthROSIE'S PLACE INC: $200 · Housing & ShelterHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$273,867Other$165,499Arts & Culture$9,800Human Services$7,688Food & Nutrition$6,000Health$1,800Housing & Shelter$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $88,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $88,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $88,267 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCAPITAL REPERTORY COMPANY: $5,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $100 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.

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 Community Foundat…Neil Jane William Est…Massry Charitable Fou…Review FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Massry Charitable Foundation Inc · Review Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joyce & Sanford Bookstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joyce & Sanford Bookstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–15%
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 44 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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