· Private foundation
The Robert J and Deborah a Chalfin Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN HILLEL | $2,500 |
| CHABAD HOUSE | $1,500 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,040 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION NEVE SHALOM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $500 |
| OSCHNER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| METUCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $400 |
| METUCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $400 |
| JIMMY FUND WALK | $250 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $250 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST ELIZ | $250 |
| BAYPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT | $250 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF3× · 2020–2022 · $18k
- PHPENN HILLEL3× · 2023–2025 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
Funded once
- TITHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -6%
- OHOCHSNER HEALTH CENTER GREG SMITH PATIENT FUNDone grant, 2018 · $5k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION IN THE HEARTone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 61 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 THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAYS FOR THE HOMELESS AND UNDER PRIVILEGED INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery ↗
- Who funds Chapters Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAYPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert J and Deborah a Chalfin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert J and Deborah a Chalfin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
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