New York · Nonprofit
SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC
SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,232,226 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($989,973). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Sephardic Academy of Manhattan Inc does
Mission
The SAM Schools mission is to provide students with a universal education that emphasizes Sephardic-Judaic Culture and Torah knowledge and observance combined with the study of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Early childhood, elementary and middle school educational services
$6,295,451 spent$3,877,678 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,295,451.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.4M to $15M (+550%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Haim Chera
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $891k → $567k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Moise y Safra Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 54% · 2019 24% · 2020 60% · 2021 61% · 2022 62% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
19% of SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,412 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,412 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC?
- SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,232,226 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($989,973). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,232,226 in grants to SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $989,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEPHARDIC ACADEMY OF MANHATTAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing