· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $860k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM | $1,310,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,025,000 |
| SAVE A CHILD'S HEART | $600,000 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC | $500,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $300,000 |
| INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $200,000 |
| OPERATION UNDERSTANDING | $200,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $177,500 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $170,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $100,000 |
| JSSA | $100,000 |
| WEINSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 47 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +20%
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- RARABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- OUOPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +1% · 69% of their budget
- TSTEMPLE SHALOM CHEVY CHASEone grant, 2023 · $80k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Low Income Housing Coalition. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
71 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. 71 of the 140 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Multi-Faith Neighbors Network ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Free Loan Association of DC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JS BRYANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
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.
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
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 Meyer and Deanne Sharlin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
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.
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