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The Schlussel 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.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$332kEducation$126kScience & Tech$45kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC$10,000
YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY$10,000
MACHON AVODAS LEVI INC$6,600
MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%KEHILLAS SPRING HILL: $10k → 14%BAVLY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $42k → 20%FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON: $20k → 11%MACHON AVODAS LEVI INC: $11k → 11%MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $18k → 11%MACHON AVODAS LEVI INC: $7k → 11%MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $18k → 11%MACHON AVODAS LEVI INC: $5k → 11%MERKAZ HA TORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $10k → 14%KEREN ACHVA: $15k → 20%FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON: $10k → 11%MERKAZ HA TORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $7k → 14%KEREN ACHVA: $10k → 20%FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $10k → 11%MERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $5k → 14%KEREN ACHVA: $5k → 20%FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $10k → 11%MERKAZ HA TORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $5k → 14%MESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN: $10k → 20%MERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $5k → 14%MERKAZ HA TORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $5k → 14%YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $10k → 14%YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $10k → 14%YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $10k → 14%KOLLEL - LOS ANGELES: $18k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $18k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $18k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $18k → 14%KOLLEL LOS ANGELES: $18k → 14%KOLLEL - LOS ANGELES: $18k → 14%KOLLEL - LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $10k → 14%KOLLEL - LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $10k → 14%YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $10k → 14%YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $10k → 14%YESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $10k → 14%TOUCH OF KINDNESS: $5k → 14%KOLLEL - LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $5k → 14%YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $5k → 14%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 39% of The Schlussel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 39%.

The Schlussel Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$508k · 11 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$508k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+117%

Still filing today

45%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MH
    MERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +116%
  • BY
    Bais Yaakov School For Girls
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • MO
    MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MY
    MESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • KS
    KEHILLAS SPRING HILL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TO
    TOUCH OF KINDNESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +117%
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDA: $89,000 · OtherCONGREGATION KOLLEL YECHIEL YEHUDAYESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMY: $60,000 · OtherYESHIVATH TORATH EMETH ACADEMYBAVLY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $44,620 · OtherBAVLY RESEARCH INSTITUTEMACHON AVODAS LEVI INC: $22,300 · OtherMACHON AVODAS LEVI INCYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · OtherYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF LOS ANGELESMESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN: $10,000 · OtherKEHILLAS SPRING HILL: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $4,300 · OtherFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $86,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELC…Bais Yaakov School For Girls: $25,000 · EducationBais Yaakov School For Gir…MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $15,000 · EducationMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANG…Kollel - Los Angeles: $79,000 · ReligionKollel - Los AngelesMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $37,200 · ReligionMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY…KEREN ACHVA: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTOUCH OF KINDNESS INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$260,220Education$126,000Religion$116,200Philanthropy$30,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC: $86,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetKollel - Los Angeles: $79,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL: $37,200 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKEREN ACHVA: $30,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetBais Yaakov School For Girls: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTOUCH OF KINDNESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OHR ELCHONON INC ↗
  • Who funds Kollel - Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds MERKAZ HATORAH COMMUNITY KOLLEL ↗
  • Who funds KEREN ACHVA ↗
  • Who funds Bais Yaakov School For Girls ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds TOUCH OF KINDNESS INC ↗

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 Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Chavi F Hertz Foundation Inc · The Alon and Rosana Miller Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Ojc Fund · New Angeles Charitable Foundation · Shavit Charitable Foundation · Kornwasser Charitable Foundation · Rohcs Family Foundation Inc · Hager Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity 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 Schlussel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schlussel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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, 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 15 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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