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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 FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$124kArts & Culture$36kAnimals$32kHuman Services$23kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$6kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE$20,000
JERUSALEM FOUNDATION$5,000
SARNA FAMILY HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE$2,900
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND$1,800
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$1,800
IF YOUR HEARD WHAT I HEARD$1,800
CHAI LIFELINE$1,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,000
SHARSHERET$500
J-GIVE FRIENDS OF KEREN ASOR FUND$500
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH$360
LEKET FOUNDATION$360
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$300
EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE$200
ALEH FOUNDATION$180
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $3k → 16%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 16%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 16%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $100 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $500 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $500 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $360 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $360 → 7%DOROT: $500 → 17%DOROT: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 18 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
32

Total granted

$119k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+52%

Still filing today

50%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +137%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +31%
  • JO
    JUST ONE LIFE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • RW
    RESCUERS WITHOUT BORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • UF
    US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
—
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
The Jerusalem Connection
—
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
9
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
10
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
11
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
University of Judaism Foundation
—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%7%<5yr15%7%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr12%43%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%12%<5yr15%17%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr12%42%35–55yr12%19%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
6,412/52,445

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESCUERS WITHOUT BORDERS — $30,000 · OtherRESCUERS WITHOUT BORDERSNATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE — $23,600 · OtherNATIONAL YIDDISH THEATREUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC — $20,000 · OtherUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INCJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL — $18,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCILAFGHAN WOMEN'S FUND — $10,000 · OtherAFGHAN WOMEN'S FUNDCAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC — $5,000 · OtherSTUDENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL C — $5,000 · Other+29 more — $30,577 · Other+29 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $60,658 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FO…ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD — $5,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTDJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INCJUST ONE LIFE INC — $3,600 · International+4 more — $4,160 · InternationalPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $26,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…+1 more — $400 · PhilanthropyTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $4,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC — $2,800 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $1,690 · HealthSharsheret Inc — $500 · HealthTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $5,300 · Human ServicesTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY — $1,720 · Human ServicesDOROT INC — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $5,000 · Arts & CultureIf You Heard What I Heard Inc — $1,800 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $300 · Education
Other$147,177International$78,418Philanthropy$26,400Health$8,990Human Services$8,120Arts & Culture$5,000Education$2,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $60,658 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $26,000 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 budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC — $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 budgetDOROT INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM — $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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe Alan and Elisa Pi…FjcCross River Community…Frank Family Charity …The Lee and Cheryl La…David & Esther Musche…The Arthur & Joyce Fe…Jewish Federation of …Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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