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The Shachar Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Shachar Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Shachar Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $261k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROMEMU | $102,450 |
| INSTITUTE OF JEWISH SPIRITUALITY | $100,000 |
| BRANDWORKERS | $11,500 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ALMA HOME FOR HEBREW CULTURE | $10,000 |
| NORTH STAR FUND | $7,354 |
| BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $6,011 |
| THE GLOBAL ACUPUNCTURE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE | $2,850 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,400 |
| THE NEW FOOD ECONOMY | $1,000 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $400 |
| MOVING TRADITIONS | $360 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $360 |
| MOTI INC | $360 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +149%
- GAGlobal Acupuncture Project Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +4% · 69% of their budget
- NYNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +326%
Funded once
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -45%- RORESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -57%
- JFJUST FOODone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Ncjw ny turns progressive ideals into action, impacting 8,000 new yorkers annually: we provide direct services to support and empower our neighbors in need today - people from all walks of life and all racial and religious backgrounds.…
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community (JFREJ Community) is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to building a vibrant Jewish left working for social justice in New York City. JFREJ Community grows the New York Jewish Left by…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
New york jewish agenda held events and briefings, and worked with elected officials and grass-tops leaders to enact our vision of a socially just new york.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Global Acupuncture Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 60 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Brandworkers International Inc ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Acupuncture Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOYJ INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW FOOD ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Windward Fund · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Novo Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Shachar 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.
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
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.
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