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The Schifrin Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Schifrin 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.

$144k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$414kEducation$219kPhilanthropy$58kHealth$45kReligion$43kEnvironment$38kAnimals$16kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST$69,500
A WIDER CIRCLE$30,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION$5,250
CONGREGATION BETH EL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$4,237
LOON PRESERVATION COMMITTEE$4,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$3,400
TEMPLE BNAI ISRAEL$2,500
SQUAM LAKE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$2,500
BIRD CONSERVANCY OF THE ROCKIES$1,818
CHABAD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,180
BEARCAMP CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY$1,100
GIVING TOGETHER$1,075
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$1,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL$1,000
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 (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $500 → 16%ROCK & ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $250 → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $250 → 16%ROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $250 → 16%GIVING TOGETHER: $2k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $2k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $2k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $2k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $1k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $1k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $1k → 8%GIVING TOGETHER: $500 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY (JSSA): $180 → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $100 → 8%HEBREW SHELTERING HOME OF GTREATER: $100 → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $500 → 8%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

ME
NH
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
MS
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$816k · 61 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
45

Total granted

$816k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-7%

Still filing today

61%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • AB
    American Battlefield Trust
    8× · 2018–2025 · $392k · revenue +50%
  • SL
    SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +23%
  • LP
    Loon Preservation Committee
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • SU
    SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY FALK COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
5
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

—
9
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
39/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Battlefield Trust: $391,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust+12 more: $12,390 · Arts & CultureA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $189,300 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INCGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,100 · Education+6 more: $11,100 · EducationWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $37,500 · OtherWASHINGTON HOSPITAL…CONGREGATION BETH EL OF MONTGOMERY: $22,462 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH E…Individual grant recipient: $17,150 · OtherIndividual grant re…CONGREGATION BETH EL: $10,920 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH E…OSAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherINTERLAKES THEATER: $5,500 · Other+66 more: $55,521 · Other+66 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DBA JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3,400 · PhilanthropyMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,250 · Philanthropy+4 more: $4,200 · PhilanthropySQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $26,250 · EnvironmentLoon Preservation Committee: $13,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $6,640 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $2,480 · EnvironmentLakes Region Conservation Trust: $1,750 · Environment+1 more: $250 · EnvironmentGIVING TOGETHER INC: $11,025 · Human ServicesROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $1,250 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $380 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,150 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 · International
Arts & Culture$403,890Education$210,500Other$155,053Philanthropy$50,850Environment$50,370Human Services$15,655International$6,650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $391,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $189,300 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $26,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoon Preservation Committee: $13,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGIVING TOGETHER INC: $11,025 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $6,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DBA JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $2,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Historical Society: $2,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $1,818 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Region Conservation Trust: $1,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEARCAMP CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF OSAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY REACH OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKindWorks Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC: $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Preservation Alliance: $550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative Fish Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget4MONTGOMERYS KIDS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $500 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.

  • Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
  • Who funds GIVING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DBA JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK AND ROLL FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds THE BEARCAMP CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Lovett-Woodsum Founda…Boston Foundation IncThe Pamela and Lauren…Tosa FoundationThe Scotto Laporte Ch…The Penates FoundationIbm International Fou…Hilltop Foundation IncThe Grossman Family C…The Beach FoundationWilliam and Cynthia M…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH38.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Tosa Foundation · The Scotto Laporte Charitable Foundation · The Penates Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Hilltop Foundation Inc · The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation · The Beach Foundation · William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Native Fish Society Inc: 27% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 116 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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