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The Shemesh Joester Foundation at a glance

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The Shemesh Joester Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$211kHuman Services$206kYouth Development$51kAnimals$24kPhilanthropy$16kHealth$16kEnvironment$9kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
$250
Median grant
11
States reached
$296k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Door$49,408
FRIENDS WITHOUT BORDERS$17,658
DELIVERING GOOD$10,498
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
Adventures For The Mind Foundation Inc$2,450
Arthritis Foundation$1,840
World Central Kitchen$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,287
UNICEF USA$1,250
Artists Fellowship$1,000
EARTHJUSTICE$912
SAVE THE CHILDREN$800
Oceana$750
Waterorg$700
The Light Fund$585
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 (FY17–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%THE RETREAT: $300 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $125 → 7%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $103 → 28%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $100 → 28%Long island Cares: $250 → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $206 → 7%MOST VALUABLE KIDS: $25 → 14%DELIVERING GOOD: $65k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $26k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $23k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $22k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $111 → 14%DELIVERING GOOD: $20k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $18k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $14k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $10k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $2k → 17%Safe Horizon: $120 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%GLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS: $210 → 17%CHARITY WATER: $480 → 17%CHARITY WATER: $480 → 17%CHARITY WATER: $40 → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $100 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $125 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 39 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
71

Total granted

$488k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

74%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FW
    FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +54%
  • TD
    THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • VI
    VETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -52%
  • KA
    KIDS AND FASHION DELIVERS
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -2%
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Climateworks Foundation

Climateworks foundation's mission is to connect philanthropy, grantees, and strategic partners to build and deliver high-impact climate solutions that benefit all people.

Science & Tech
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Alphadyne Foundation. 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

70 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. 70 of the 144 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELIVERING GOOD INC: $199,027 · Human ServicesDELIVERING GOOD INC+10 more: $3,225 · Human ServicesFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER: $177,237 · EducationFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER+2 more: $124 · EducationTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $50,158 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF…KIDS AND FASHION DELIVERS: $22,500 · OtherKIDS AND FASHION DELIV…ACLU: $3,950 · Other+92 more: $34,783 · Other+92 moreVETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,750 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $8,300 · HealthCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,840 · Health+6 more: $1,055 · HealthTHE ADVENTURES FOR THE MIND FOUNDATION INC: $12,200 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $770 · PhilanthropyGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC: $512 · PhilanthropyTHE ALPHADYNE FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $205 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,130 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,995 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,350 · InternationalWATERORG: $800 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $502 · InternationalGirl Rising: $500 · International+6 more: $1,105 · InternationalOCEANA INC: $4,550 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $1,664 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $750 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $308 · Environment+2 more: $354 · Environment
Human Services$202,252Education$177,361Other$111,391Health$36,445Philanthropy$14,187International$13,382Environment$7,626

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELIVERING GOOD INC: $199,027 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER: $177,237 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $50,158 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVETERINARIANS INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,750 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ADVENTURES FOR THE MIND FOUNDATION INC: $12,200 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $8,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $4,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,130 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,995 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,664 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,103 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $770 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $603 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $586 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $502 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Rising: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALPHADYNE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $456 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDream Big Inc: $410 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTreehouse Shakers Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $303 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $303 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $285 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $200 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Shemesh Joester Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shemesh Joester Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Shemesh Joester Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shemesh Joester 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 144 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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