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The Sarah Shamah Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sarah Shamah 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.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$806kEducation$179kHuman Services$170kPhilanthropy$130kHealth$8kYouth Development$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
$27,302
Median grant
1
States reached
$188k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM$37,501
YESHIVA OF FLATBUSH$27,800
KOL YAAKOV$27,302
SHAARE ZION CONGREGATION$21,000
BETH TORAH CONGREGATION$15,500
VARIOUS CHARITIES UNDER 2000$6,682
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 (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $38k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $36k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $26k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $21k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $19k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $18k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $5k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $5k → 20%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $2k → 20%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 30 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+81%

Still filing today

23%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
ReligionEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SC
    SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +82%
  • BS
    Berit Shalom Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $59k · revenue ×12
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AG
    A GIVING HAND
    one grant, 2024 · $37k
  • 3C
    3 CONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF WEST DEAL
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • MM
    MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +51%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center of Jamaica Estates

Congregation beth-el sephardic center of jamaica estates is a religious institution

Religion
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah

To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—
5
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
6
Yeshivat Or Hachaim of Lakewood Inc

Parochial elementary school with a focus on sephardic tradition.

Education
7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
International Sephardic Educational & Cultural Center in Jerusalem

The sec is dedicated to strengthening jewish indentiy for youth and young adults, and to building a new generation of spiritual and community leaders. from our historic campus in the old city of jerusalem to our various diaspora branches,…

Religion
9
Passaic Hebrew Institute

YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…

Education
10
Bnei Moshe
Philanthropy
11
Yeshiva Bais Mordechai of Teaneck

To provide religious Jewish education.

Education
12
Shemiras Sedorim Inc

Educational

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sephardic Community Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Ilan High School. 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

15 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. 15 of the 50 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVAH OF FLATBUSH: $316,880 · OtherYESHIVAH OF FLATBUSHBETH TORAH CONGREGATION: $203,735 · OtherBETH TORAH CONGREGATIONIndividual grant recipient: $71,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $70,482 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK OF ALLENHURST: $60,836 · OtherCONGREGATION OHEL YISHAK OF ALLENHURSTVARIOUS CHARITIES UNDER 2000: $51,793 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $44,600 · OtherSHAARE ZION CONGREGATION: $39,500 · OtherA GIVING HAND: $36,600 · Other+28 more: $116,011 · Other+28 moreSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $169,863 · Human ServicesSBH COMMUNITY …Berit Shalom Inc: $59,227 · ReligionSEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $17,519 · ReligionSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $4,251 · Religion+2 more: $1,201 · ReligionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $41,000 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,001 · HealthMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 · HealthBARKAI FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · EducationIMAGINE ACADEMY: $501 · Education+1 more: $36 · EducationTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $1,002 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,012,187Human Services$169,863Religion$82,198Philanthropy$41,000Health$7,501Education$5,737Food & Nutrition$1,002

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC: $169,863 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBerit Shalom Inc: $59,227 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING: $17,519 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,001 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $4,251 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC: $1,002 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE ACADEMY: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC: $201 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILAN HIGH SCHOOL: $36 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.

  • Who funds SBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Berit Shalom Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE SEPHARDIC INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds BARKAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE SEPHARDIC FOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds OHR NAAVA ↗
  • Who funds DEAL SEPHARDIC YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINE ACADEMY ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Mamiye Foundation…E R G FoundationIsaac & Marjorie Gind…Ralph J Harary Founda…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…The Charles and Brend…The Dweck and Rahmey …Haddad Brands Family …Ted & Renee Serure Fa…David J Beyda Memoria…Jane & Sam Sutton Fam…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Mamiye Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Isaac & Marjorie Gindi Foundation Inc · Ralph J Harary Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Charles and Brenda Saka Family Foundation C/O Charles Saka · The Dweck and Rahmey Family Foundation · Haddad Brands Family Foundation · Ted & Renee Serure Family Foundation · David J Beyda Memorial Foundation Inc · Jane & Sam Sutton Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Sarah Shamah Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Sarah Shamah 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 50 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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