· Private foundation
The Scharff Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION | $12,500 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $6,650 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM | $5,080 |
| MIKE SLIVE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HILLEL OF GEORGIA | $2,200 |
| CONGREGATION HAR HASHEM | $1,750 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ORLANDO | $1,500 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| IANS FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE DAVIS ACADEMY | $360 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHillels of Georgia Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +112%
- CTCAMP TWIN LAKES INC5× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +79%
- IFIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- JJFGAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CFCOUNCIL FOR QUALITY GROWTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +86%
- ATALLIANCE THEATREone grant, 2017 · $3k
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
32 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. 32 of the 72 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
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 BIRMINGHAM JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR QUALITY GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NERANENAH INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
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 Selig Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Lynne and Howard Halpern Family Foundation Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc · Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation · The Zalik Foundation Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc · Morris Family Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Blaine Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Scharff Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scharff Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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