· Private foundation
The Sheila & Henry Marcus Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CLCHAI LIFELINE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +58%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +63%
- BGBEAR GIVERS INC3× · 2018–2023 · $1k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- YMYESHIVAT MEKOR CHAIM INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +17%
- MTMIKVAH TAHARA YJP DIVISIONone grant, 2017 · $600
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Religious School
To further jewish education in israel
A religious school providing teaching facilities of jewish faith, history, literature, jewish life and ideals.
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…
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.
Furtherance of jewish education
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…
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To provide secondary high school education in Brooklyn, NY
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Education in Media Inc Dba Jbs Jewish Broadcasting Service and 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.
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SEATS OF DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds HEICHAL HATORAH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION NY 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: 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
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 Sheila & Henry Marcus 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.
- Heichal Hatorah — 1% of income from government
- The Frisch School — 0% 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.