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The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
39%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$15k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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 arriving14$37k50%
FY202318$96k39%
FY202216$68k38%
FY202128$36k82%
FY201714$13kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$124kArts & Culture$36kAnimals$32kHuman Services$23kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$6kReligion$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$60,65820%
Rescuers Without Borders$30,0001n/a
US Friends of Dror Israel Inc$20,00012%
The Friendship Circle Inc$5,30031%
Camp Ramah in the Berkshires Inc$5,00010%
One Israel Fund Ltd$5,00010%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc$5,00010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$5,00010%
The Mount Sinai Hospital$4,00030%
Just One Life Inc$3,60020%
Chai Lifeline Inc$2,80020%
Lubavitch on the Palisades$1,8001n/a
American Friends of Peace of Mind Inc$1,80010%
If You Heard What I Heard Inc$1,80010%
Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County$1,72030%
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$1,69050%
Chabad of Englewood Inc$1,5001n/a
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$1,00010%
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc$1,0001n/a
God's Love We Deliver Inc$1,00010%
American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc$1,00010%
Dorot Inc$1,00020%
East Hill Synagogue$9005n/a
Aleh Foundation$5403n/a
American Friends of Meir Panim$50010%
Sharsheret Inc$50010%
Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America$40040%
Central Fund of Israel$36010%
Yeshiva University$30010%
Congregation Ahavath Torah$3001n/a
Center for Food Action in New Jersey$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $60,658 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS Friends of Dror Israel Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Friendship Circle Inc: $5,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Ramah in the Berkshires Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Israel Fund Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJerusalem Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Life Inc: $3,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Peace of Mind Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIf You Heard What I Heard Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTomchei Shabbos of Bergen County: $1,720 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $1,690 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Meir Panim: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva University: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Food Action in New Jersey: $100 over 1y, 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 24.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc · Fjc · Cross River Community Foundation · Frank Family Charity Fund Inc · The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Sarna Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $37,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (45%), Arts & Culture (13%), Animals (12%).
Who are The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($61k), Rescuers Without Borders ($30k), US Friends of Dror Israel Inc ($20k).
Does The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Alan and Elisa Pines Family Foundation Inc, Fjc.
Where is The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation is based in NJ.

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 58 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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