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The Saramar Charitable Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$501k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
109
Grants FY2024
97
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$156,872
Organizations funded a year
97 to 162
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
17
Total assets, FY2024
$6.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Saramar Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving105$495k20%
FY202397$669k38%
FY2022109$432k35%
FY2021105$437k35%
FY2020119$397k35%
FY2019162$414k41%
FY2018140$439k44%
FY2017132$444kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.2MHealth$517kInternational$489kArts & Culture$457kEducation$415kPhilanthropy$228kHuman Services$89kFood & Nutrition$86kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Har Zion Temple$1,011,5418n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$418,68080%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$145,58060%
The Barnes Foundation$121,00070%
Project Home$74,60560%
Philadelphia Theatre Company$44,60050%
Share Food Program$44,50050%
Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc$43,19750%
Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence$40,46080%
Trustees of Tufts College$37,80050%
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All grantees of The Saramar Charitable Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Har Zion Temple$1,011,5418n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$418,68080%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$145,58060%
The Barnes Foundation$121,00070%
Project Home$74,60560%
Philadelphia Theatre Company$44,60050%
Share Food Program$44,50050%
Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc$43,19750%
Judith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence$40,46080%
Trustees of Tufts College$37,80050%
Friends of Rittenhouse Square$33,00081%
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc$32,35050%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$27,50060%
Friends of Ofanim Inc$26,00061%
Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School$22,88070%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$22,00020%
Orot$19,18081%
The Chevra Inc$19,00061%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh$17,17680%
Philadelphia Film Society$15,00030%
Breakthrough T1d$14,13070%
Jewish Relief Agency$13,25080%
Jewish Heritage Programs$12,60061%
Team Impact Inc$12,50040%
Philadelphia City Rowing Inc$12,50041%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region$12,42070%
The Franklin Institute$12,00080%
Vetri Foundation for Children$11,25060%
Community Partnership School$11,11020%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$11,00020%
The Clay Studio$11,00011%
Moore College of Art and Design$10,75050%
National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section$10,54021%
America Share USA Inc$10,20050%
Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Inc$10,18020%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$10,00010%
Ravitz Family Foundation$10,00014%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$10,00010%
Buddhist Film Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Israel Ideas Inc$10,000114%
Museum of American Heritage$10,000113%
Congregation Kol Shofar$9,8902n/a
The George Washington University$9,50050%
Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc$9,40080%
Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy$9,20060%
The Lighthouse International Film Festival Inc$8,50071%
Ceasefire Pennsylvania$8,50051%
Young Scholars Charter School$8,30050%
Beyond Celiac$8,25040%
Zoological Society of Philadelphia$8,00040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$7,80050%
Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia$7,50030%
East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc$7,50010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$7,00020%
Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc$7,00070%
Jewish Community Center of Long Beach Island$7,0005n/a
Kellman Brown Academy$6,90040%
Minding Your Mind$6,85050%
Brooklyn Public Library$6,75030%
Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center$6,50040%
The University of the Arts$6,25030%
Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter Schoo$6,00030%
The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia$6,00010%
Tribe 12$6,00021%
Impact100 Philadelphia Inc$5,75050%
Philadelphia Vip Inc$5,75070%
Federation Day Care Services D/B/A Federation Early Learning Services$5,73560%
Jevs Human Services$5,60030%
Children's Crisis Treatment Center$5,50050%
Raymond and Miriam Klein Jcc (D/B/A Kleinlife)$5,46020%
Moishe House$5,40030%
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,00020%
Academy of Music of Philadelphia Inc$5,00010%
American Jewish Committee$5,00030%
Kimmel Center Inc$5,00010%
Chabad on Campus Ucsc$5,0002n/a
Israeli-American Council$4,60020%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$4,60030%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$4,56060%
Greater Philadelphia Film Office$4,50050%
Germantown Home$4,50010%
Living Beyond Breast Cancer$4,45050%
The Rock School for Dance Education$4,30030%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$4,00040%
Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Scholarship Program Inc$4,00020%
Huru International Inc$4,00040%
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media$3,99030%
The Friendship Circle Philadelphia Region Inc$3,7802n/a
The Parkinson Council$3,65040%
Onetable Inc$3,60020%
Impact 100 Inc$3,55030%
Moving Traditions$3,54060%
Jerusalem Baptist Church$3,5002n/a
Williamson College of the Trades$3,50020%
Please Touch Museum$3,50020%
Helpusadoptorg Inc$3,42350%
Eagles Autism Challenge Inc$3,07930%
Move Over Breast Cancer Inc$3,01711%
National Constitution Center$3,00030%
Liguori Inc$3,00010%
Acting Without Boundaries$3,00023%
Israel Emergency Alliance$3,00010%
Helphopelive Inc$3,00040%
Ideas Beyond Borders Inc$3,00030%
Linda Creed Epstein Foundation$3,00030%
Jewish Center$2,8001n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,65050%
Torah Outreach Program Florida Inc$2,6001n/a
Squashsmarts Inc$2,5001n/a
American Association for Cancer Research Foundation$2,50010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Steppingstone Scholars Inc$2,5001n/a
Steppingstone Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Maccabi USA Inc$2,50030%
Balletx$2,50010%
Adath Jeshurun Foundation$2,5001n/a
Westmoreland County Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc$2,50014%
Girls Inc of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey$2,50030%
Golden Slipper Camp$2,50010%
Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc$2,20040%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$2,19910%
The Gesu School Inc$2,00010%
Drexel University$2,00020%
Philadelphia Contemporary$2,00020%
Junior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania$2,00020%
Jewish Learning Venture$2,00020%
Anti-Defamation League$1,98020%
Girls on the Run of Central Ny Ltd$1,86471%
High Point Volunteer Fire Company$1,85080%
Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc$1,85050%
Joshua M Katz Memorial Fund$1,80011%
Omaze Foundation Inc$1,5252n/a
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$1,50030%
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network$1,5001n/a
American Brain Foundation$1,50010%
Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image$1,50030%
FRAXA Research Foundation Inc$1,50030%
Medford United Methodist Church$1,5001n/a
Bottomless Closet$1,50020%
Tourette Association of America Inc$1,30010%
American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc$1,26820%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$1,25020%
The Public School of Germantown$1,23040%
Jewish Funders Network$1,20010%
Pixie Parents Inc$1,12021%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$1,10010%
American Heart Association Inc$1,10020%
Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc$1,01820%
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc$1,01850%
Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center$1,0001n/a
Project Sunshine Inc$1,00020%
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Moorestown Friends School$1,0001n/a
New Jersey Federation of Young Men's Hebrew Association and Young Women's$1,00010%
Arcadia University$1,00010%
Twist Out Cancer$1,00010%
United States Squash Racquets Assoc Inc$1,00010%
Hopephl$1,00020%
HIP HOP Public Health Inc$1,00010%
Museum of the American Revolution$1,00010%
Temple Hillel$1,0001n/a
City Squash Inc$1,00020%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$1,00010%
Rothman Institute Orthopaedic Foundation$1,00010%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$1,0001n/a
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$1,00010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$1,00010%
National Liberty Museum$1,00010%
The Station Foundation$1,00010%
Greenwood House Home for the Jewish Aged$1,00020%
Association for Jewish Studies Inc$1,00010%
Freire Foundation$1,0001n/a
Miles for Migraine$1,00020%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$97510%
Bay Area Discovery Museum$91730%
William Loveland Foundation$75021%
Maternity Care Coalition$75030%
Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc$72020%
Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc$60310%
Philadelphia Music Alliance Dba Pma Music Fund$60013%
Humane World for Animals Inc$60020%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$60020%
The Marine Mammal Center$51620%
Save a Mind Foundation$51010%
Conservation Society of California$50320%
The Attic Youth Center$50010%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$50010%
New York Cares Inc$50020%
The Children's Hospital Foundation Inc$50010%
Hughie & Selma Black Foundation$50010%
The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation$50010%
The Jerry Segal Classic$50010%
Women's Medical Fund Inc$50010%
Dancing Classrooms Inc$50010%
Angel Flight East$50010%
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia Regional Foundation$50010%
Dinah Inc$50010%
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$50010%
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy$50010%
California Academy of Sciences$45820%
Whyy Inc$43030%
Ronald McDonald House Global$41510%
Ruth Stage Inc$40011%
Custom and Craft Jewish Rituals Inc Dba Recustom Haggadotcom$37110%
Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc$36010%
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$3601n/a
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$36010%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$35010%
Hidden Valley PTO$31520%
The Union League of Philadelphia$31010%
Barnegat Light First Aid Squad Inc$30030%
Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter School$30010%
Dolphins Cycling Challenge Inc$28020%
Philabundance$28020%
Gratz College$25010%
Paws Inc$25010%
Operation Smile Inc$25010%
Kavod$25010%
Metavivor Research and Support Inc$25010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$25010%
American Friends of Libi Inc$25010%
NAMI National$25010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$25010%
Laurel House$25010%
Cb Community Schools$25010%
International Rescue Committee INC$25010%
Miami Music Project Inc$25010%
Trevor Project Inc$25010%
Arbor Pointe Foundation Inc$25010%
Business Executives for National Security$25010%
Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation$25010%
Turning Points for Children$25010%
National Arbor Day Foundation$24910%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$21820%
Dancers Group$20010%
Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc$18910%
Marin Foster Care Association$18510%
Fountain House Inc$18010%
Wish Upon a Wedding$18010%
Experience Camps$18010%
Musicians on Call Inc$18010%
Homeward Trails Animal Rescue Inc$18010%
Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club$18010%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc$18010%
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc$18010%
Congregation Beth Or$1801n/a
Kimmel-Spiller Charitable Foundation$18011%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$16710%
Hilton Head Humane Association$15010%
Women's Center of Montgomery County$15010%
American Institute for Cancer Research$11810%
Drive Change Inc$10720%
Legacy of Hope$1031n/a
Beiteinu Charitable Foundation$1001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region$10010%
National Alliance On Mental Illness$10010%
Gofundmeorg$10010%
Barnegat Light Volunteer Fire Co No 1 Inc$10010%
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$10010%
Delaware County Literacy Council$10010%
Keep Memory Alive$1001n/a
Association of Jewish Aging Services$10010%
Mys Charitable Foundation Inc$10010%
Corner House Foundation$10010%
Jericho Project$10010%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology$10010%
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$10010%
Temple Adath Yeshuran$1001n/a
National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$10010%
Help Peru Inc$10010%
Center for Aquatic Sciences$9810%
Autism Speaks Inc$501n/a
Germantown Jewish Centre$501n/a
Mechon Hadar$361n/a
Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia$3510%
American Association for Cancer Research Inc$1010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 158 recipients with no EIN on record ($794k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Saramar Charitable Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $418,680 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $145,580 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $121,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetProject Home: $74,605 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Theatre Company: $44,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetShare Food Program: $44,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAgahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc: $43,197 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJudith Creed Horizons for Achieving Independence: $40,460 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $37,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Rittenhouse Square: $33,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc: $32,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetB'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ofanim Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRaymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School: $22,880 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrot: $19,180 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Chevra Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh: $17,176 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Film Society: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $14,130 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Relief Agency: $13,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $12,600 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTeam Impact Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region: $12,420 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Franklin Institute: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVetri Foundation for Children: $11,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Partnership School: $11,110 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clay Studio: $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMoore College of Art and Design: $10,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section: $10,540 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerica Share USA Inc: $10,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Inc: $10,180 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRavitz Family Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuddhist Film Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetIsrael Ideas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMuseum of American Heritage: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe George Washington University: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc: $9,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJack M Barrack Hebrew Academy: $9,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lighthouse International Film Festival Inc: $8,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCeasefire Pennsylvania: $8,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Scholars Charter School: $8,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Celiac: $8,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA61.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Snider Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Specter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · Tzedakah Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Honickman 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.

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About The Saramar Charitable Fund

How much does The Saramar Charitable Fund give?
The Saramar Charitable Fund reported 109 grants totaling $501,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 97 and 162 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Saramar Charitable Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (13%), International (12%).
Who are The Saramar Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Har Zion Temple ($1.0M), Birthright Israel Foundation ($419k), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($146k).
Does The Saramar Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Saramar Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Saramar Charitable Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, The Snider Foundation.
Where is The Saramar Charitable Fund based?
The Saramar Charitable Fund is based in PA.

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 443 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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