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The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
5
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEIT CHAVERIM$7,400
HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE$4,600
BNEI AKIVA OF US$2,000
MAAGALIM$2,000
PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE$1,150
C TEEN UPPER WESTSIDE$1,050
UNITED HATZALAH$1,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF SUNNY ISLES$600
ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS$540
CHAI LIFELINE$500
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH BROADCASTING$360
CAST FOR KIDS$250
MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION$250
FRISCH SCHOOL$180
ISRAEL TENNIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$180
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 7%OHEL: $500 → 13%MIKVAH TAHARA YJP DIVISION: $600 → 20%CAST FOR KIDS: $557 → 14%BEIT CHAVERIM: $7k → 9%YESHIVA MEKOR CHAIM: $2k → 19%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 7%OHEL CAMP KAYLIE: $1k → 20%MAAGALIM: $2k → 15%BEIT CHAVERIM: $2k → 9%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 7%BNEI AKIVA OF US: $2k → 17%OHEL CAMP KAYLIE: $500 → 20%YOUNG ISRAEL OF SUNNY ISLES: $860 → 15%BEIT CHAVERIM: $2k → 9%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 7%UNITED HATZALAH: $1k → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF SUNNY ISLES: $600 → 15%BEIT CHAVERIM: $2k → 9%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 7%UNITED HATZALAH: $1k → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH: $600 → 15%BEIT CHAVERIM SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 9%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $5k → 7%UNITED HATZALAH: $1k → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH: $500 → 15%BEIT CHAVERIM SYNAGOGUE: $500 → 9%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 7%ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS: $540 → 17%YOUNG ISRAEL OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH: $500 → 15%HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 7%JCRC NY: $500 → 17%BEAR GIVERS: $500 → 17%BEAR GIVERS: $500 → 17%PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $500 → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $1k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $1k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $1k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $1k → 17%CHAI LIFELINE: $600 → 17%C TEEN UPPER WESTSIDE: $1k → 17%PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 17%PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%HADASSAH: $720 → 17%PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc: $1k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 17 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$81k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+1%

Still filing today

41%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +58%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +63%
  • BG
    BEAR GIVERS INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $1k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • YM
    YESHIVAT MEKOR CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +17%
  • MT
    MIKVAH TAHARA YJP DIVISION
    one grant, 2017 · $600
  • O
    OHEL
    one grant, 2023 · $500
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
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
4
Yeshiva Har Torah

A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.

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5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
Yeshiva Chayei Olam

Yeshiva chayei olam inc., was established for the purpose of having an orthodox jewish high school. the school teaches talumdic studies, talmudic jurasprudence, orthodox jewish ethics and the old testament. in addition, the school provides…

Education
7
Yeshivah Beth Israel Tifereth Menachem Foundation

To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.

Education
8
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
9
Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael of Atlanta Inc

Inspire and assist each student in his quest to nurture a personal relationship with hashem, develop and refine his character, immerse himself in serious torah scholarship and attain the knowledge and skills necessary to be an articulate…

Education
10
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
11
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim

To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY

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12
Darchei Noam Inc

To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service; the most unlike its peers is Our Place 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

17 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. 17 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTHAMPTON SYNAGOGUE INC: $37,265 · OtherWESTHAMPTON SYNAGOGUE INCBEIT CHAVERIM: $12,700 · OtherBEIT CHAVERIMPARK EAST SYNAGOGUE: $6,650 · OtherPARK EAST SYNAGOGUE+22 more: $18,567 · Other+22 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $6,100 · HealthCHAI LIFEL…BEAR GIVERS INC: $1,360 · HealthBEAR GIVER…MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,050 · HealthMAKING HEA…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION OF JEWISH BROADCASTING I: $860 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $180 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureYESHIVAT MEKOR CHAIM INC: $1,800 · EducationThe Frisch School: $1,040 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 · EducationHEICHAL HATORAH: $180 · EducationPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyOUR PLACE INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $540 · International
Other$75,182Health$8,510Arts & Culture$4,140Education$3,270Philanthropy$1,500Youth Development$1,000International$540

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 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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 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
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 CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVAT MEKOR CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAR GIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frisch School ↗
  • Who funds OUR PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF JEWISH BROADCASTING I ↗
  • Who funds ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATS OF DREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF CONNECTICUT ↗
  • Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION NY 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 Communal FundJoseph & Margot Gange…Lichtenstein Marcus F…David and Adrienne Gr…Combined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Heichal Hatorah: 1% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–20%
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 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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