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The Sheldon H Solow Foundation

$701
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$701
Largest grant, FY2021
$701
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations The Sheldon H Solow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $701 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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
FY20211$701100%
FY20206$160k0%
FY201914$245k43%
FY201816$303k38%
FY201718$424kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$279kHealth$275kArts & Culture$166kHuman Services$147kEnvironment$126kCivil Rights$35kInternational$30kReligion$28kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sheldon H Solow Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $125,950 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Georgica Pond Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetStudent Advocacy Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNew York University: $78,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYeshiva University: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGift of Life Marrow Registry Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Baruch College Fund: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation: $19,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAvenues for Justice Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Hundred Black Men Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHenry Street Settlement: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Soloviev Foundation: $701 over 1y, 0.0% 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 21.

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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 FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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How do I get to The Sheldon H Solow Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sheldon H Solow 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.

About The Sheldon H Solow Foundation

How much does The Sheldon H Solow Foundation give?
The Sheldon H Solow Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $701 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does The Sheldon H Solow Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (24%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are The Sheldon H Solow Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($126k), Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation Inc ($125k), Museum of Modern Art ($120k).
Does The Sheldon H Solow Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sheldon H Solow Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Sheldon H Solow Foundation based?
The Sheldon H Solow Foundation 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 32 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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