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The Steven B Schonfeld Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Steven B Schonfeld Foundation Inc

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$720k
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.

Health$4.3MEducation$2.5MPhilanthropy$448kPublic Safety & Disaster$311kHuman Services$254kRecreation & Sports$120kInternational$113kHousing & Shelter$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $720k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERISTY OF MIAMI$720,000
AMFAR$145,000
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS$50,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
GREEN VALE SCHOOL$25,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$25,000
AMERICAN STREET DANCE THEATER COMPANY$20,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$14,280
OLD WESTBURY PBA CHAPTER - NASSAU POLICE CONFERENCE$10,000
NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL$5,000
WHITEFIELD CHARITY SK CORPORATION$2,346
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $250 → 12%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $1k → 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $14k → 14%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $100 → 17%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $6k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $6k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $350 → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 6%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
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 37 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
71

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+18%

Still filing today

73%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +17%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +29%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • JU
    JERICHO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $229k · revenue -40%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +226%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Help Usa Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wall Street Bound Inc. 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

85 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. 85 of the 116 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/85
Grantees still filing
61/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,222,350 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $145,000 · Health+23 more: $198,037 · HealthUniversity of Miami: $1,980,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $607,805 · EducationGREEN VALE SCHOOL+8 more: $7,810 · EducationJERICHO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $500,000 · OtherJERICHO UNION FREE SCHOO…CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA: $300,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDAWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $275,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of…SUPPLIES FOR SUCCESS: $245,500 · OtherSUPPLIES FOR SUCCESSPORTLEDGE SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherPORTLEDGE SCHOOLOLD WESTBURY PBA CHAPTER - NASSAU POLICE CONFERENCE: $90,000 · Other+52 more: $433,355 · Other+52 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $461,800 · Philanthropy+4 more: $27,430 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $228,759 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $23,785 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,020 · International+5 more: $21,600 · InternationalTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $120,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,725 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $14,020 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,350 · Human Services+3 more: $1,350 · Human Services
Health$3,815,387Education$2,595,615Other$1,993,855Philanthropy$489,230International$338,164Recreation & Sports$120,100Human Services$58,445

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,222,350 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,980,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $607,805 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $461,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $228,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLEDGE SCHOOL: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HELP USA FUND INC: $61,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHLOFMITZ HEART FOUNDATION INC ATTNDDK: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $27,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $25,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $25,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $24,049 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $23,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $14,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $14,020 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALL STREET BOUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Education in Honduras: $7,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEDGE FUNDS CARE INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGhana Make a Difference: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYDNE JACOBY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $1,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundS&P Global Foundation…The Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…The New York Communit…The Lazard Charitable…Baxter International …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Steven B Schonfeld Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steven B Schonfeld Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Dream Program Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to The Steven B Schonfeld Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Steven B Schonfeld Foundation Inc 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 116 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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