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The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

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
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $860k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.7M
$20,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OPERATION UNDERSTANDING$200,000
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$200,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$177,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$170,000
TEMPLE SHALOM$115,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA$100,000
AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE$100,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN$100,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $1k → 14%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $2k → 13%WEINSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 22%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $2k → 13%WEINSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 22%ALIVE: $5k → 9%THE RED TENT FUND: $5k → 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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
TX
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 51 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
38

Total granted

$7.8M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+6%

Still filing today

75%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +20%
  • NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • RA
    RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • OU
    OPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +1% · 69% of their budget
  • TS
    TEMPLE SHALOM CHEVY CHASE
    one grant, 2023 · $80k
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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2
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

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…

Community Improvement
3
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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4
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights
6
Jews of Color Initiative

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…

Civil Rights
7
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
8
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
9
Jews United for Justice Inc

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.

Religion
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
12
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 140 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
39/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $2,870,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $1,200,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCRABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA: $1,025,000 · OtherRABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $1,025,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $400,000 · Other+100 more: $4,020,000 · Other+100 moreAMERICA GIVES INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · ReligionINTERFAITH WORKS: $30,000 · ReligionURI L'TZEDEK INC: $20,000 · Religion+2 more: $14,000 · ReligionCOLLEGE BOUND INC: $200,000 · EducationCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $62,500 · EducationJS BRYANT SCHOOL INC: $60,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $30,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $25,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 · EducationWAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $31,000 · EducationAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $200,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $200,000 · Community ImprovementMulti-Faith Neighbors Network: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ISRAEL FUND: $186,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $30,000 · InternationalJ STREET: $15,000 · International+3 more: $17,500 · International
Other$10,540,000Philanthropy$554,000Religion$464,000Education$458,500Civil Rights$390,000Community Improvement$332,000International$299,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $400,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF RICHMOND: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $200,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $200,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $186,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMulti-Faith Neighbors Network: $100,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Association of DC: $85,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHICAGO JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $62,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJS BRYANT SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHIAS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSYLVIAS SISTERS: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAW FORWARD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetURI L'TZEDEK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJ STREET: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOCKINGATHENSPERRY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10,000 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 Jewish Federation…Greater Washington Co…Jewish Communal FundThe Morningstar Phila…Jewish Federation of …The Morris and Gwendo…Galena-Yorktown Found…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Jewish Appeal-…United Way of the Nat…Ann B & Thomas L Frie…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Meyer and Deanne Sharlin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 140 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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