· Private foundation
The Saramar Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k100 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAR ZION TEMPLE | $156,872 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| THE BARNES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $19,827 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE | $10,079 |
| FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC | $10,000 |
| KIMMEL CANCER CENTER AT JEFFERSON | $10,000 |
| WISSINOMING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $7,750 |
| CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR | $5,540 |
| MEDFORD UNITED METHODIST CHUCH | $5,500 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY - FERKAUF SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY | $5,500 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
196 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2024, 112 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +14%
- PHPROJECT HOME6× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +67%
- SFSHARE FOOD PROGRAM5× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +572%
Funded once
- SOSISTERS OF MERCYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TCTHE CLAY STUDIOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +292%
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · 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.
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.
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How this is measured
265 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. 265 of the 443 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Orot ↗
- Who funds The Chevra Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Jewish Heritage Programs ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Saramar Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Saramar Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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