· Private foundation
The Sirkin Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE JUDEA | $14,166 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM (AFMDA) | $10,000 |
| STEVE'S CAMP AT HORIZON FARM | $2,500 |
| TIVKA CHILDREN'S HOME | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO) | $500 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $250 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $250 |
| PROJECT K-9 HERO | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +113% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2023 · $208k · revenue +127%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +206%
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- COCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +21%
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $18k
- PBPALM BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Schultz-Hill Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds STEVES CAMP AT HORIZON FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONTACT CAPE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SCHULTZ-HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Sirkin Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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