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The Sherrie R Savett Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sherrie R Savett Family 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$758kArts & Culture$46kReligion$42kEducation$18kHuman Services$13kInternational$10kHealth$7kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 10%ISRAELI- AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $1k → 10%ISRAELI- AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $750 → 22%THE GERSHMAN Y: $50 → 22%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Sherrie R Savett Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 18%.

The Sherrie R Savett Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$720k · 13 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$720k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+34%

Still filing today

92%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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Human ServicesEducationReligionArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
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

  • TH
    THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $600k · revenue +120%
  • WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $41k · revenue +88%
  • JL
    JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MU
    MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +90%
  • LY
    Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +37%
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.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
University of Judaism Foundation
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5
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
The Jerusalem Connection
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9
Jj Greenberg Institute for the Advancment of Jewish Life Inc

The organization was formed to operate to develop and disseminate a narrative of jewry and judaism that can sustain jewish identity of jews fully integrated in post-modern culture. the institute's program will help translate the narrative…

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10
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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11
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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12
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $600,258 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION+14 more: $38,560 · Other+14 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $157,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION O…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $41,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $2,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $29,500 · ReligionMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $5,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $1,800 · ReligionISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $10,000 · Human ServicesJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $3,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $750 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $10,000 · International+2 more: $380 · InternationalAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $8,948 · EducationYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · Education
Other$638,818Philanthropy$157,500Arts & Culture$43,500Religion$36,300Human Services$16,300International$10,380Education$10,048

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 budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $600,258 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $157,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $41,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $29,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $8,948 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc: $3,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACT: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA: $50 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 Saramar Charitabl…The Brind FoundationKatz Family Charitabl…The Specter FoundationDaniel M Tabas Family…The Cozen O'Connor Fo…Erlbaum Family Founda…Independence Foundati…Jewish Federation of …The Philadelphia Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
The Saramar Charitable FundPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Brind Foundation · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Specter Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Sherrie R Savett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sherrie R Savett Family Foundation. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Sherrie R Savett Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sherrie R Savett Family 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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