New York · Private foundation
Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable 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.
- $186k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $186k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $99k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $184k | 95% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $163k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $61k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Amidei Zion of Bobov Inc | $79,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Our Place in Ny Inc | $64,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Khal Chasidim | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty | $48,690 | 1 | 0% |
| Kahal Toldos Tzvi Dspinka | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Israel Public Affairs Committee | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation | $18,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ezer Mizion | $13,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Amidei Zion of Bobov Inc | $79,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Our Place in Ny Inc | $64,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Khal Chasidim | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty | $48,690 | 1 | 0% |
| Kahal Toldos Tzvi Dspinka | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Israel Public Affairs Committee | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation | $18,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ezer Mizion | $13,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kolel Bais Brauch Sanz Gribov | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan | $8,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin | $7,200 | 2 | n/a |
| The Congregation Ahavath Chesed Inc | $7,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Manhattan High School for Girls | $5,400 | 3 | n/a |
| Westchester Day School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ner Israel Rabbinical College Inc | $4,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch | $3,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Mikdash Dovid Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Khal Shaarei Zion | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mikvah Ltd | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Zichron Mordechai Shlomo | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Birchas Chaim | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Kollel Torah Temimah Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $185,560 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: New York University ($100k), Amidei Zion of Bobov Inc ($79k), Our Place in Ny Inc ($65k).
- Does Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, The Chestnut Foundation.
- Where is Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Y David and Cheryl Scharf Family Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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