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The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$600
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,400
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$269k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$22k33%
FY202314$15k36%
FY20227$9k29%
FY20217$13k43%
FY20209$6k33%
FY20199$8k11%
FY201810$10k60%
FY201712$10kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$67kHealth$9kArts & Culture$3kEducation$3kYouth Development$3kInternational$2kFood & Nutrition$1kRecreation & Sports$430Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westhampton Synagogue Inc$37,2658n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$6,10080%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$3,00030%
Yeshivat Mekor Chaim Inc$1,80010%
Bear Givers Inc$1,36030%
Cteen Upper West Side Inc$1,0501n/a
Making Headway Foundation Inc$1,05040%
The Frisch School$1,04040%
Our Place Inc$1,00023%
Foundation of Jewish Broadcasting I$86020%
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All grantees of The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Westhampton Synagogue Inc$37,2658n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$6,10080%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$3,00030%
Yeshivat Mekor Chaim Inc$1,80010%
Bear Givers Inc$1,36030%
Cteen Upper West Side Inc$1,0501n/a
Making Headway Foundation Inc$1,05040%
The Frisch School$1,04040%
Our Place Inc$1,00023%
Foundation of Jewish Broadcasting I$86020%
Elem Youth in Distress Inc$54010%
National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction Inc$25010%
Seats of Dreams Inc$25010%
Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service$18010%
The Jewish High School of Connecticut$1801n/a
Heichal Hatorah$18010%
Jewish International Connection Ny Inc$10010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $6,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYeshivat Mekor Chaim Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBear Givers Inc: $1,360 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMaking Headway Foundation Inc: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frisch School: $1,040 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOur Place Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFoundation of Jewish Broadcasting I: $860 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetElem Youth in Distress Inc: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for Facial Reconstruction Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeats of Dreams Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeichal Hatorah: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish International Connection Ny Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 Communal FundNY23× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Joseph & Margot Ganger Foundation Inc · Lichtenstein Marcus Family Foundation · David and Adrienne Greenblatt Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc

How much does The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc give?
The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $22,060 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (71%), Health (9%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westhampton Synagogue Inc ($37k), Chai Lifeline Inc ($6k), Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($3k).
Does The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Joseph & Margot Ganger Foundation Inc, Lichtenstein Marcus Family Foundation.
Where is The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc based?
The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 39 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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