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The Sheftel 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$89kEducation$62kReligion$21kRecreation & Sports$20kScience & Tech$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kHuman Services$7kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$529k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$8,900
NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$2,500
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$2,500
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$2,500
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$2,500
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE HILLEL$1,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LAB$1,000
CONGREGATION SHA'ARAY SHALOM$1,000
MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER$1,000
BOULDER MOUNTAIN BIKE ALLIANCE$500
NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED$500
BOULDER COLLECTIVE$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 (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50 → 14%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%WOMEN'S WILDERNESS INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 12%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $100 → 16%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $36 → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$156k · 43 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
86

Total granted

$156k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+22%

Still filing today

72%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NK
    NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +81%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +76%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    2× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -7%
  • MC
    MASS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +30%

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
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
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Marigold Charitable Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Developmental Disabilities …Local History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/99
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,466

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.

04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 145 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
59/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION SHA ARAY SHALOM — $14,671 · OtherCONGREGATION SHA ARAY SHALOMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $4,479 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $4,000 · OtherCAMP TEL NOAR — $3,587 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LAB — $3,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER — $4,000 · Other+85 more — $55,487 · Other+85 moreNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL — $48,325 · PhilanthropyNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF CAPE COD INC — $2,250 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,258 · PhilanthropyPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $5,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLE…The President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,500 · EducationThe President and Tru…New York University — $2,500 · EducationNew York UniversityWellesley College — $2,500 · EducationWellesley CollegeWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUM…UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFOR…Davidson College — $2,500 · EducationDavidson CollegeSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMON…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $2,500 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF …THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE S…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHER…+7 more — $3,186 · Education+7 moreBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $9,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER — $4,500 · Community ImprovementFoundation for Jewish Life at Dartmouth — $1,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $4,518 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $2,636 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $2,250 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,090 · HealthCINDY'S FUND INC — $1,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $750 · HealthDana-FarberMass General Brigham Cancer Care INC — $536 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Health+10 more — $1,632 · HealthNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC — $7,000 · Recreation & SportsBOULDER MOUNTAINBIKE ALLIANCE — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHeadwaters Trails Alliance — $1,500 · Recreation & SportsThe New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc — $800 · Recreation & SportsROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC — $5,000 · Science & Tech
Other$89,224Philanthropy$53,833Education$45,686Community Improvement$15,500Health$14,912Recreation & Sports$11,300Science & Tech$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL — $48,325 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC — $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY AT GOTHIC — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $4,518 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COLORADO AVALANCHE INFORMATION CENTER — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $2,636 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CAPE COD INC — $2,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNING PATHS INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOULDER MOUNTAINBIKE ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeadwaters Trails Alliance — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,090 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS ACTION FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder Treasures Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Jewish Life at Dartmouth — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCINDY'S FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLEL AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $1,000 over 4y, 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Sheftel Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 145 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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