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The Shachar Foundation at a glance

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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.

$261k
Granted FY2019
18
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

16
’17
7
’18
11
’19
9
’20
9
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$4.8MReligion$494kCivil Rights$106kHuman Services$102kEducation$68kHealth$52kEnvironment$39kInternational$38kOther$0
02FY2019 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k13 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
$2,850
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF KINGSTON & ULSTER COUNTY: $15k → 16%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $28k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $28k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $20k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $4k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$971k · 17 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$971k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
-6%

Still filing today

53%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • HF
    HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +149%
  • GA
    Global Acupuncture Project Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +4% · 69% of their budget
  • NY
    NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +355%

Funded once

  • MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -45%
  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • JF
    JUST FOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -79%
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
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

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.…

—
2
American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

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.

Community Improvement
5
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
6
National Council of Jewish Women New York Section

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.…

Community Improvement
7
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

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.

Civil Rights
8
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

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…

Civil Rights
9
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

—
10
New York Jewish Agenda Inc

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.

Civil Rights
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
12
New York University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 60 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,665,811 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE OF JEWISH SPIRITUALITY: $476,666 · OtherINSTITUTE OF JEWIS…KEHILAT ROMEMU: $152,450 · OtherKEHILAT ROMEMUNORTH STAR FUND INC: $104,990 · OtherNORTH STAR FUND IN…THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $37,011 · Other+42 more: $176,184 · Other+42 moreBrandworkers International Inc: $101,300 · Civil RightsHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $80,070 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW ISRAEL FUND: $38,000 · InternationalT'RUAH: $2,874 · InternationalNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionJUST FOOD: $5,000 · Food & NutritionJOYJ INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $3,700 · Food & NutritionTHE NEW FOOD ECONOMY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionGlobal Acupuncture Project Inc: $19,500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Health
Community Improvement$4,666,811Other$947,301Civil Rights$101,300Human Services$95,070International$40,874Food & Nutrition$29,700Health$29,500

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,665,811 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $104,990 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBrandworkers International Inc: $101,300 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $80,070 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $38,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $37,011 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGlobal Acupuncture Project Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 69% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST FOOD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOYJ INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $3,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetT'RUAH: $2,874 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $2,160 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW FOOD ECONOMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATERSHED CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRONX RIVER ALLIANCE INC: $525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $513 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNLI USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZAMIR CHORAL FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $100 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.

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.

Windward FundThe Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundNovo FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…
Windward FundDC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Shachar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shachar 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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