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The Sirkin Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Sirkin Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$263kInternational$172kHealth$141kHuman Services$62kPhilanthropy$26kYouth Development$19kReligion$18kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
$2,400
Median grant
6
States reached
$250k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $4k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $3k → 13%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $4k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $2k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $1k → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $575 → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $500 → 7%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS (JAFCO): $250 → 7%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $250 → 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

NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$591k · 20 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
46

Total granted

$591k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+44%

Still filing today

90%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $208k · revenue +127%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +206%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
  • PB
    PALM BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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
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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2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
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
5
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
6
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

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.

Philanthropy
7
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

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…

Health
8
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
9
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

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,…

Human Services
10
The Jewish Fund

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…

Philanthropy
11
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
12
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 74 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $207,500 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYTIKVA CORP: $28,150 · EducationTIKVA CORPSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $13,900 · EducationWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $5,250 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $99,400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGE…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DE…+3 more: $9,600 · International+3 moreJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $95,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Cen…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $12,965 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION O…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMEN…THE SCHULTZ-HILL FOUNDATION: $4,500 · PhilanthropyADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $4,260 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA S…TEMPLE JUDEA: $16,379 · OtherTEMPLE JUDEAPALM BEACH FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $6,000 · OtherPALM BEACH FRI…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $3,500 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE: $3,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+37 more: $43,175 · Other+37 moreCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL: $25,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 · HealthCONTACT CAPE ATLANTIC: $6,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Health+4 more: $2,350 · HealthSTEVES CAMP AT HORIZON FARMS INC: $18,980 · Youth Development+1 more: $250 · Youth DevelopmentJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $15,457 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human Services
Education$264,800International$159,000Philanthropy$127,725Other$95,554Health$42,850Youth Development$19,230Human Services$17,707

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 budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $207,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $99,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $28,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF PHILADELPHIA TRUSTEE ADMINISTERING WILLS EYE HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEVES CAMP AT HORIZON FARMS INC: $18,980 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $15,457 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $13,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $12,965 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONTACT CAPE ATLANTIC: $6,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHULTZ-HILL FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC: $4,260 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE KRISTEN ANN CARR FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of NorthCentral Palm Beach County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $100 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Sirkin Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sirkin 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 74 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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