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The Singer Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Singer Family 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$750k
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 2024.

Philanthropy$6.7MEducation$3.2MRecreation & Sports$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$633kInternational$500kHuman Services$275kPublic Benefit$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $433k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION$750,000
MACCABI USA$529,292
GRASSROOTS SOCCER INC$424,041
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$354,125
BRIDGEUSA GROUP$250,000
RESTORE THE MUSIC UK$232,547
ASPEN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$50,000
GUITARS OVER GUNS$50,000
BEIT HALOCHEM$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHES$25,000
TWO BRIDGES FOOTBALL CLUB INC$13,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY$5,000
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 (FY19–20, $225k) 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%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN: $150k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN: $75k → 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

VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
DE
DC
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 9 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$13M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • Williams College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +87%
  • MU
    MACCABI USA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +95%
  • ST
    SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +3%
  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -8%
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
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gordon and Jenny Singer 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GORDON AND JENNY SINGER FOUNDATION: $6,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GORDON AND JENNY SINGER FOUNDATION+2 more: $160,000 · PhilanthropyWilliams College: $2,608,500 · EducationWilliams CollegeUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $320,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERBridgeUSA Group: $250,000 · EducationBridgeUSA GroupUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Education+1 more: $100,000 · EducationMACCABI USA INC: $1,698,584 · Recreation & SportsMACCABI USA INCGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $424,041 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT SOCCE…SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $1,572,500 · OtherSAVE THE MUSIC FO…RESTORE THE MUSIC UK: $232,547 · OtherRESTORE THE MUSIC…THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $225,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUN…Brothers for Life: $150,000 · OtherBrothers for Life+5 more: $178,500 · Other+5 moreBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · International+1 more: $13,500 · InternationalOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $333,000 · Public Safety & DisasterB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$6,660,000Education$3,428,500Recreation & Sports$2,122,625Other$2,358,547International$513,500Public Safety & Disaster$333,000Youth Development$300,000

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 GORDON AND JENNY SINGER FOUNDATION: $6,500,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetWilliams College: $2,608,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $1,698,584 over 4y, 23% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $1,572,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $424,041 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $333,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $320,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBridgeUSA Group: $250,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBrothers for Life: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTWO BRIDGES FOOTBALL CLUB INC: $13,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Philanthropi…
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Singer Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Singer Family 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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