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The Safir Foundation at a glance

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The Safir Foundation

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$3kScience & Tech$1kArts & Culture$1kHealth$950Human Services$500Education$350Employment$250Food & Nutrition$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAFCO$1,000
The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute$1,000
The Black Fairy Godmother$250
Congregation Agudath Israel$250
Hire Heroes USA$250
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society$250
Admirals Cove Foundation$250
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%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.
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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2k · 3 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$2k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • J
    JAFCO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k
  • AC
    ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $750 · revenue +32%
  • GM
    Gay Men's Choir South Florida
    3× · 2022–2024 · $350

Funded once

  • AT
    ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • MF
    MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +15%
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
Jupiter Medical Center Physicians Group Inc

JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
5
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
6
The New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn Inc

Maimonides midwood community hospital is a voluntary, non-profit hospital serving the patients of brooklyn. the hospital prides itself on providing the highest quality healthcare along with compassion, respect and dignity to all our…

Health
7
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
8
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
9
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
11
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hire Heroes Usa Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAFCO: $1,250 · OtherJAFCOThe Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute: $1,000 · OtherThe Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps InstituteATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY: $500 · OtherATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANYGay Men's Choir South Florida: $350 · OtherGay Men's Choir South FloridaThe Black Fairy Godmother: $250 · OtherThe Black Fairy GodmotherCongregation Agudath Israel: $250 · OtherCongregation Agudath IsraelJEWISH FEDERATION PALM BEACH CO: $200 · OtherPAN-MASS CHALLENGE TRUST: $200 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $150 · OtherADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $750 · PhilanthropyADMIRALS COVE FOUNDAT…METROPOLIS CC FOUNDATION: $400 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLIS CC FOUNDAT…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $250 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach Un…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $150 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Cente…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthCROHN'S &…Jupiter Medical Center Inc: $150 · HealthJupiter M…BARD COLLEGE: $350 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC: $250 · EducationMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human ServicesTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 · EnvironmentKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $200 · Arts & CultureHIAS INC: $150 · International
Other$4,150Philanthropy$1,550Health$650Education$600Human Services$500Environment$250Arts & Culture$200International$150

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 budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLIS CC FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $150 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
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.

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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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