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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
IF YOUR HEARD WHAT I HEARD$1,800
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$1,800
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND$1,800
CHAI LIFELINE$1,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,000
J-GIVE FRIENDS OF KEREN ASOR FUND$500
SHARSHERET$500
LEKET FOUNDATION$360
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH$360
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$300
EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE$200
ALEH FOUNDATION$180
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $3k → 16%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 16%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 16%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $500 → 7%TOMCHEI SHABBOS OF BERGEN COUNTY: $500 → 7%CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION: $100 → 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
TX
FL
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
—
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
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 58 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 FUNDAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL C: $5,000 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC: $5,000 · OtherSTUDENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $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 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 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 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
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.

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 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

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 Sarna Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sarna Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.

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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