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The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$344k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

International$809kEducation$320kEnvironment$255kCivil Rights$144kCrime & Legal$86kAnimals$78kHuman Services$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MYRIAD USA INC$50,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATED$23,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$22,000
SEEDS OF PEACE INC$22,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$17,000
STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC$16,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
SEVA FOUNDATION$12,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$7,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$7,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND$7,000
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC$7,000
OXFAM-AMERICA INC$7,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $1k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $1k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $4k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $4k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $4k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $2k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $750 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 55 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
18

Total granted

$1.8M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-19%

Still filing today

93%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • ML
    MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +37%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +98%
  • BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -19%
  • NY
    NEW YORK COMMON PANTRYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • HF
    HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -39%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
9
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
10
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringLgbtq+ Community SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,485

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.

04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
52/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEEDS OF PEACE INC — $194,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INCSEVA FOUNDATION — $191,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATIONMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $101,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCInternational Rescue Committee INC — $68,200 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCMYRIAD USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $41,200 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $24,000 · International+6 more — $48,250 · International+6 moreTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $169,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIAT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $67,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC …URBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $21,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $24,000 · OtherCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $21,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $19,500 · Other+41 more — $238,450 · Other+41 moreMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $191,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CE…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $78,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC L…826NYC Inc — $11,500 · EducationWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS — $11,500 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $52,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $11,500 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $8,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $5,600 · Civil RightsNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $34,000 · EnvironmentMOHONK PRESERVE INC — $16,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,750 · EnvironmentBEE GIRL — $6,550 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $4,700 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine Inc — $3,500 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $48,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $16,500 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $2,500 · Community ImprovementTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $38,500 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human Services
International$717,650Other$560,450Education$302,000Civil Rights$132,600Environment$75,000Community Improvement$67,000Human Services$66,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $194,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $191,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION — $191,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $169,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $101,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $78,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $68,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $52,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $48,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $41,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $38,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $34,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC — $18,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $18,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC — $17,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $16,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC — $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $13,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION — $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budget826NYC Inc — $11,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS — $11,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY — $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York — $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOG STAR RESCUE INC — $8,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $7,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLANET BEE FOUNDATION — $7,700 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $7,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNYC BOOKS THROUGH BARS INC — $7,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc — $6,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEE GIRL — $6,550 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATION — $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REENTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds 826NYC Inc ↗
  • Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds DOG STAR RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS 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.

The New York Communit…Fairfield County's Co…The Pfizer Foundation…Lincoln Financial Fou…Brooklyn Community Fo…Open Society InstituteAetna Foundation IncThe Ford FoundationBoston Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Tides Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Open Society Institute · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation

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 Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Robert M Schiffman Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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