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The Sarah and Paul Densen Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sarah and Paul Densen Charitable 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.

$119k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$425kEducation$121kPhilanthropy$96kReligion$60kCommunity Improvement$40kHuman Services$37kCivil Rights$22kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELUNA$40,700
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF METROWEST$20,000
ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE$15,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$12,500
IMAGINE$8,600
LUNGEVITY$5,000
SHARSHERET$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$3,600
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$3,600
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY$2,500
BRICOLAGE ACADEMY$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $1k → 6%FIRST STAR INC: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $2k → 17%SUMMIT YMCA: $2k → 10%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
LA
AL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$762k · 14 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$762k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+61%

Still filing today

50%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $329k · revenue +52%
  • BA
    BRICOLAGE ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +293%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +79%
  • EA
    EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +295%
  • CB
    COOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
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
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
6
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
7
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
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

28 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. 28 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
25/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $328,590 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF METROWEST: $60,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF METROWESTJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST NJ: $60,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROWEST NJUJA OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $40,000 · OtherUJA OF GREATER METROWEST NJIndividual grant recipient: $22,340 · Other+18 more: $83,168 · Other+18 moreBRICOLAGE ACADEMY: $77,500 · EducationBRICOLAGE …STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATION: $50,700 · HealthELUNA FOR…LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,800 · HealthLUNGEVITY…EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $5,000 · HealthEAGLES AU…Sharsheret Inc: $5,000 · HealthSharshere…+1 more: $1,250 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $40,870 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $3,600 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $25,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $18,618 · Civil RightsISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $15,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$594,098Education$80,500Health$73,750International$60,470Philanthropy$25,000Civil Rights$18,618Public Safety & Disaster$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $328,590 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetBRICOLAGE ACADEMY: $77,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATION: $50,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $40,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $19,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $18,618 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $250 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.

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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 Sarah and Paul Densen Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sarah and Paul Densen Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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
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 Sarah and Paul Densen Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 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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