Skip to content

Pennsylvania · Nonprofit

THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC

THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,393,403 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($5,900,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
70
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$4.9M
47/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What The Schechter Institutes Inc does

Mission

The institute was formed to help fashion an israel society and jewish world secure in its jewish roots and strong in its democratic values.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grants and awards for the benefit of educational programs.

    $6,367,897 spentof which $6,354,235 as grants$9,125 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,367,897.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 215 ($6.8M) Expenses 89 ($4.9M) Net assets 159 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 88 ($2.8M) Expenses 84 ($4.6M) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 156 ($4.9M) Expenses 84 ($4.7M) Net assets 111 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 202 ($6.4M) Expenses 92 ($5.1M) Net assets 167 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 190 ($6.0M) Expenses 96 ($5.3M) Net assets 182 ($5.3M)2023 Revenue 177 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($5.5M) Net assets 184 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 194 ($6.1M) Expenses 84 ($4.6M) Net assets 237 ($6.9M)2025 Revenue 142 ($4.5M) Expenses 119 ($6.6M) Net assets 167 ($4.9M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (142)Expenses (119)Net assets (167)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.9M to $4.9M (−29%).

$2.9M
$4.7M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.4M
$6.9M
$4.9M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.4M
’17
$1.9M
’18
−$1.9M
’19
$257k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$700k
’22
$55k
’23
$1.5M
’24
−$2.1M
’25
1.0
months of
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

Saul I Sanders

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed161616161616161720
Joined·+2+1+0+0+1+1+3+4
No longer listed·21001121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $814k → $2.3M.

24 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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

THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC.

36%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 38% · 2019 25% · 2020 41% · 2021 64% · 2022 41% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.

“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

46% of THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 14 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC's funding base is broadening — from 25 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC?
THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,393,403 to it, the largest being William Davidson Foundation ($5,900,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $16,393,403 in grants to THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC?
William Davidson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds Schechter Institutes →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 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