How much does The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation give?

The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $7,289,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), International (12%), Civil Rights (11%).

Who are The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Union for Reform Judaism ($2.9M), Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc ($1.2M), Rabbinical Assembly of America ($1.0M).

Does The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation 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 Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.

Where is The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation based?

The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation is based in MD.

Foundation Dossiers

Maryland · Private foundation

The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation

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.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 101
Grants FY2024: 89
Organizations funded FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,310,000
States reached, FY2024: 20
Total assets, FY2024: $8.6M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$5.4MInternational$1.5MCivil Rights$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.2MPhilanthropy$588kEducation$474kHuman Services$447kEmployment$400kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Union for Reform Judaism	$2,870,000	2	n/a
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc	$1,200,000	2	10%
Rabbinical Assembly of America	$1,025,000	1	n/a
America Gives Inc	$500,000	1	2%
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation Inc	$400,000	2	7%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc	$400,000	2	1%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America	$300,000	1	n/a
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated	$200,000	2	2%
Friends of the Guest House Inc	$200,000	2	5%
Jewish Community Center of Richmond	$200,000	2	1%

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All grantees of The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Union for Reform Judaism	$2,870,000	2	n/a
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc	$1,200,000	2	10%
Rabbinical Assembly of America	$1,025,000	1	n/a
America Gives Inc	$500,000	1	2%
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation Inc	$400,000	2	7%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc	$400,000	2	1%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America	$300,000	1	n/a
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated	$200,000	2	2%
Friends of the Guest House Inc	$200,000	2	5%
Jewish Community Center of Richmond	$200,000	2	1%
Operation Understanding of the District of Columbia	$200,000	1	69%
Americans United for Separation of Church and State	$200,000	2	1%
College Bound Inc	$200,000	2	10%
DC Youth Orchestra Program	$200,000	2	6%
People for the American Way Foundation	$175,000	2	3%
Temple Beth Or	$167,000	2	n/a
Multi-Faith Neighbors Network	$100,000	2	9%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of DC	$85,000	1	21%
Central Conference of American Rabbis	$80,000	2	n/a
Jewish Center for the United Nations	$65,000	1	n/a
Chicago Jewish Day School	$62,500	1	1%
Js Bryant School Inc	$60,000	2	7%
New York Public Art Fund Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc	$50,000	2	6%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion	$50,000	1	n/a
N Street Village Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Washington State Lactation Collaborative	$40,000	1	n/a
National Low Income Housing Coalition	$40,000	2	0%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Hias Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Interfaith Works	$30,000	2	0%
Sylvias Sisters	$30,000	2	12%
Capital Area Food Bank Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Manna Food Center Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Community of Hope	$30,000	2	0%
Washington Hebrew Congregation	$30,000	2	n/a
A Wider Circle Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Institute for Nonprofit News	$25,000	1	0%
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd	$25,000	1	n/a
Law Forward Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Givedirectly Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Hope House	$20,000	2	6%
Uri L'Tzedek Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc	$15,000	2	0%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc	$15,000	2	0%
J Street	$15,000	2	0%
Congregation or Chadash	$10,000	1	n/a
Truckers Against Trafficking	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Creative Change	$10,000	1	1%
Friday Morning Music Club Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Center for Black Excellence and Culture Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Building Hope in the City	$10,000	1	0%
Womens League for Conservative Judaism	$10,000	1	n/a
Hockingathensperry Community Action	$10,000	1	0%
Shoreline Robotics Society	$10,000	1	17%
California Interfaith Power & Light	$10,000	1	3%
National Religious Campaign Against Torture	$10,000	1	0%
Greater Portland Hillel	$10,000	1	3%
Aapi Youth Rising Inc	$10,000	1	45%
T'Ruah	$7,500	2	0%
John D Voelker Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Pickles Group Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Red Tent Fund	$5,000	1	0%
Transgender Law Center	$5,000	1	0%
Mazzoni Center	$5,000	1	0%
ALIVE Inc	$5,000	1	0%
The Gimmel Foundation Inc	$5,000	2	1%
American Friends of Jordan River Village Foundation	$5,000	2	0%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc	$4,000	2	0%
Public Religion Research Institute Inc	$4,000	1	0%
The Ciesla Foundation	$3,000	2	0%
The Tali Fund Inc	$2,000	1	1%
Jonah Maccabee Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	2%
Avalon Theatre Project Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Bikur Cholim of Greater Washington Inc	$2,000	1	0%
District of Columbia Public Library Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Jewish Center for Justice	$1,000	1	0%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.

The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 67.

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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 Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncMD21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Ann B & Thomas L Friedman Family Found

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.

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About The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation

How much does The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation give?: The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation reported 101 grants totaling $7,289,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), International (12%), Civil Rights (11%).
Who are The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Union for Reform Judaism ($2.9M), Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc ($1.2M), Rabbinical Assembly of America ($1.0M).
Does The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation 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 Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation based?: The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation is based in MD.