· Private foundation
Ac Ratshesky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESH FILMS | $25,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND | $25,000 |
| HEBREW COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| JUST-A-START CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $20,000 |
| PER SCHOLAS | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND | $20,000 |
| JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC | $20,000 |
| FOUND IN TRANSLATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON | $20,000 |
| BRIGHTER BOSTON INC | $20,000 |
| LA COLABORATIVA INC | $20,000 |
| MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $20,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS | $2,730 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $642k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC5× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +44%- FFFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +85%
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +1%
- AFACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +86%
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +122%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.
Junior achievement of southern massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skill they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
How this is measured
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH FILMS ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Tr Uw Helen F Kimball-The Moses Kimball Fund for Promotion of Good Citizenship · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ac Ratshesky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ac Ratshesky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc: 81% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc: 44% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc: 43% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc: 39% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Eliot School: 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- Brighter Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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