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The Slovin 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.

$10k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Arts & Culture$9.5MReligion$1.2MEducation$703kYouth Development$288kCivil Rights$104kPhilanthropy$46kHealth$43kInternational$18kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 38 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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90

Total granted

$12M
$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

61%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentReligionOther

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

  • YI
    YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +217%
  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $607k · revenue +89%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2019–2020 · $605k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +76%
  • TM
    THE MENDL HOFFMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
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
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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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
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
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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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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
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Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
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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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#15#4#10#13#3
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%74%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/87
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,673

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.

04the grantee network

81 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 132 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
56/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $8,571,869 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INCAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $606,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY+15 more — $338,720 · Arts & CultureYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $1,077,500 · ReligionYIVO INSTI…+3 more — $3,350 · ReligionCornell University — $605,048 · EducationNew York University — $36,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $26,000 · Education+6 more — $34,625 · EducationLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC — $57,000 · OtherNATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE FOLKSBIENE — $46,750 · OtherCOLEL CHABAD — $44,950 · OtherTHE MENDL HOFFMAN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherCONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM — $20,098 · OtherPARK EAST SYNAGOGUE — $18,025 · OtherYESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM — $12,000 · Other+87 more — $126,078 · OtherAMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION — $276,097 · Youth DevelopmentENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET — $25,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Environment+3 more — $450 · Environment
Arts & Culture$9,517,089Religion$1,080,850Education$701,673Other$354,901Youth Development$276,097Human Services$35,000Environment$27,450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $8,571,869 over 5y, 44% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $1,077,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $606,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetCornell University — $605,048 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION — $276,097 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDIGITAL HERITAGE MAPPING INC — $165,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC — $57,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRO PRIMO LEVI INC — $46,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetNew York University — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET — $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOAKWOOD SCHOOL — $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJAKE TV INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOMEZ FOUNDATION FOR MILL HOUSE — $2,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO LIGHTS — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ciesla Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATAHDIN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivil Liberties Defense Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJuntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc — $500 over 1y, 47% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY35.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Nash Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The David Berg Foundation Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Wolfensohn Family Foundation · Indian Trail Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust

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 Slovin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc4% of income from government
  • The Family Center Inc3% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
18report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Slovin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Slovin 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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