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The Shekels Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Shekels Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$11MArts & Culture$860kCommunity Improvement$556kHealth$438kEducation$151kInternational$130kFood & Nutrition$64kEnvironment$53kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $29,346, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,693,846 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,664,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$29,346
Median grant
1
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$29,346
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 (FY17–19, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $15k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%MALIBU CART INC: $10k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $10k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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

NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 54 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 53 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
48

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+30%

Still filing today

57%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FA
    Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County
    4× · 2017–2021 · $293k · revenue +25%
  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $146k · revenue +72%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $125k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IA
    IMPACT ASSETS INC DAF
    one grant, 2018 · $553k
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $328k · revenue +48%
  • CP
    CAL POLY CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +97%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
3
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
4
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
5
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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7
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
8
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is San Marino Motor Classic. 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

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 107 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
45/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,028,603 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIMPACT ASSETS INC DAF: $553,099 · OtherIMPACT ASSETS INC DAFHUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS: $359,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND BOTANICAL GARDENSFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $293,085 · OtherFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County+60 more: $1,178,695 · Other+60 moreHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $327,500 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTI…PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $145,520 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTO…GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHO…MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCI…LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $57,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreIMPACTASSETSINC: $450,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSET…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $110,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PH…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $21,500 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $125,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $105,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $60,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 · HealthPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $115,000 · EducationCAL POLY CORPORATION: $100,000 · EducationAegis America Inc: $80,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $70,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $35,000 · InternationalEPIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $20,000 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $10,000 · InternationalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $50,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation: $50,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · Environment
Other$3,412,482Arts & Culture$712,520Philanthropy$606,500Health$381,000Education$380,000International$175,000Environment$165,000

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 budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $450,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $327,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $293,085 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $145,520 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $82,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAegis America Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC: $46,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGo Campaign: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEANA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PASADENA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $11,500 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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Fishbein Family F…Pasadena Community Fo…Weingart FoundationAnn Peppers FoundationHelen and Will Webste…Gail G Ellis Foundati…Jerry & Terri Kohl Fa…The Meredith and Rose…
The Ahmanson FoundationCA23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Fishbein Family Foundation Inc · Pasadena Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · Helen and Will Webster Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Shekels Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Shekels Charitable 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 107 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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