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Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2023
31
Grants FY2023
30
Organizations funded FY2023
87%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$218
Largest grant, FY2023
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 87% of the organizations Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202330$40k87%
FY20218$25k50%
FY20206$23k33%
FY20198$29k38%
FY20188$54k63%
FY20177$54kn/a
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$109kReligion$70kPhilanthropy$8kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$218Education$200International$200Health$113Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mesivta Keren Orah$25,00012%
Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc$15,0001n/a
Congregation Poale Zedeck$7,2654n/a
Yeshiva Minchas Eluzar$1,7505n/a
Chasdei Avos$1,05050%
Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of$7181n/a
Gemach of Jackson Inc$36010%
Bnai Emunah Chabad Inc$3001n/a
Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin$2501n/a
Ner Gavriel Fund Inc$20010%
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All grantees of Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mesivta Keren Orah$25,00012%
Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc$15,0001n/a
Congregation Poale Zedeck$7,2654n/a
Yeshiva Minchas Eluzar$1,7505n/a
Chasdei Avos$1,05050%
Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of$7181n/a
Gemach of Jackson Inc$36010%
Bnai Emunah Chabad Inc$3001n/a
Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin$2501n/a
Ner Gavriel Fund Inc$20010%
Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh$20010%
Bais Medrash of Lakewood Commons$1501n/a
American Friends of Baruch Umarpeh$10010%
Yeshiva of Far Rockaway$1001n/a
Sephardic Gan Torat Emet Inc$10010%
Colel Chabad$1001n/a
Bonei Olam Inc$9510%
American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc$5010%
Chai Lifeline Inc$1810%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($172k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMesivta Keren Orah: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChasdei Avos: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGemach of Jackson Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNer Gavriel Fund Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel Academy of Pittsburgh: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Baruch Umarpeh: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSephardic Gan Torat Emet Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $95 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $18 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

The Ojc FundNY21× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust · The Ezra Charitable Trust · The Jmg Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation

How much does Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation give?
Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $47,173 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Religion (30%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Mesivta Keren Orah ($25k), Congregation Supporters of Torah Inc ($15k), Congregation Poale Zedeck ($7k).
Does Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust.
Where is Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation based?
Unger-Pfeffer Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 49 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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