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The Schenker Family 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.

$282k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$402kHealth$220kEducation$170kPhilanthropy$143kYouth Development$26kReligion$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$593k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME$110,000
92Y$101,500
ICHAN SCHOOL OR MEDICINE$15,000
SUCESS ACADEMY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AJC$10,000
OXALOSIS AND HYPEROXALURIA FOUNDATION$10,000
MY FACE$5,000
AMERICAN ISREAL FUND$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
MENTOR$500
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$752k · 7 repeat orgs$880k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
22

Total granted

$752k
$846k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+60%

Still filing today

43%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • 9
    92Y
    4× · 2019–2024 · $402k
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $135k · revenue +19%
  • U
    UJA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $110k

Funded once

  • R
    Riverdale
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +60%
  • MJ
    Michael J. Fox Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $115k

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
Huntington's Disease Foundation

To fund transformative research to find treatments, and ultimately a cure, for huntington's disease.

Health
2
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

3
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
4
Dystonia Medical Research Foundation

The foundation has three main purposes: (1)to advance dystonia research by awarding grants to basic, translational, and clinical investigators and to medical/scientific institutions committed to finding the cause and cure for all forms of…

Health
5
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
6
Nfx

The organization follows the mission as set forth in its articles of incorporation. it has not yet adopted a separate mission statement.

Health
7
Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation

To accelerate breakthroughs by providing today's best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative cancer research. the foundation's goals are to identify and fund the best and brightest early-career scientists in cancer research;…

Health
8
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
11
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Depression Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 34 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

92Y — $401,500 · Other92YRiverdale — $150,000 · OtherRiverdaleMichael J. Fox Foundation — $115,000 · OtherMichael J. Fox FoundationUJA — $110,000 · OtherUJA924 — $100,000 · Other924rock and roll hall fame — $100,000 · Otherrock and roll hall famesay yes to education — $50,000 · Otherriverdale country day school — $45,000 · Other+19 more — $223,400 · Other+19 moreTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $150,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL…The Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation — $15,000 · HealthThe Oxalosi…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK …THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,500 · Youth DevelopmentICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 · EducationJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,294,900Health$166,000Arts & Culture$135,000Youth Development$25,500Education$10,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
  • Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds The Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC
  • Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Schenker Family 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
2021222324
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Schenker Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Schenker Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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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