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Joseph Suchman Memorial Foundation

Palm Beach Gardens, FL · EIN 13-6113177. Reported 95 grants totalling $227,880 to 51 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$227,880granted, 2021-2025
51recipients, as named on its returns
45%of grantees funded again the next year
$223,559assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Joseph Suchman Memorial Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $1,000; the smallest was $4 and the largest $79,034. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
68 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
21 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cedar Park & Beth El CemeteriesQueens, NY$79,238332023
Gardens of Boca RatonBoca Raton, FL$43,500222025
Gardens of Boca Raton FhBoca Raton, FL$17,088112023
Birthright IsraelNew York, NY$14,000112025
Anti Defamation LeagueNew York, NY$9,100552025
Magen David AdomNew York, NY$9,050222025
Cardiac Institute of the Palm BeachesJupiter, FL$7,500442025
University of Oregon FoundationEugene, OR$6,500222023
Flagler MedicalPalm Coast, FL$6,200222024
Heritage FoundationWashington, DC$3,469112025
US Holocaust Memorial MuseumWashington, DC$3,200442024
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$3,000222022
HiasWashington, DC$3,000442025
Kravis CenterWest Palm Beach, FL$2,555552025
University of OregonEugene, OR$2,500112022
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY$1,800332023
Adath IsraelLawrenceville, NJ$1,500112022
Norton Museum of ArtWest Palm Beach, FL$1,045442025
American Civil Liberties UnionNew York, NY$1,000112025
Feeding AmericaChicago, IL$1,000222025
HillelWashington, DC$960442025
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$800112025
Jewish Foundation of the RighteousWest Orange, NJ$750222024
Florida Atlantic UniversityBoca Raton, FL$740332024
Maltz Jupiter Theatre IncJupiter, FL$640112024
Maltz Jupiter Theater IncJupiter, FL$595112025
Birthright Israel FoundationNew York, NY$550442024
Feeding AmericaElmsford, NY$500112021
Jewish Foundation for the RighteousWest Orange, NJ$500112021
National Jewish HealthNew York, NY$500112021
Pbg Police and Fire Rescue FoundationPalm Beach Gardens, FL$500222025
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$500222023
American Israel Public Affairs Com (aipac)Washington, DC$450112024
Friends of Magen David AdomNew York, NY$450222024
Alzheimers AssociationChicago, IL$300112023
AipacWashington, DC$250332023
Fund for Park AvenueNew York, NY$250112021
Make a WishPhoenix, AZ$250112023
Make a Wish FoundationMonroe, NJ$250112021
Ms SocietyCanton, MA$250112023
Shriners Hospital for ChildrenTampla, FL$250112023
Shriners Hospital for ChildrenPhiladelphia, PA$250112021
St Jude Children HospitalNew York, NY$250112021
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$250112023
Henry Flagler MuseumPalm Beach, FL$150112023
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$110112023
American Heart AssociationDallas, TX$105112023
Palm Beach Gardens Police & FireNorth Palm Beach, FL$100112025
Planned ParenthoodNorth Hyde Park, NY$100112021
Ovarian Cancer Awareness InitiativeNe Atlanta, GA$50112023
AlsNew York, NY$35112023

22 of 51 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 45%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 55 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
21 grants
International Affairs
9 grants
Education
8 grants
Civil Rights
5 grants
Religion
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$92,234$250
202214$11,809$675
202329$63,253$250
202415$13,920$500
202516$46,664$775

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

53% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New York
$121K
Florida
$81K
District of Columbia
$11K
Oregon
$9K
New Jersey
$3K
Illinois
$1K
Arizona
$250
Massachusetts
$250

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Joseph Suchman Memorial Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 102 Palm Bay Circle, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33418. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-6113177 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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