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Amy Smith and John G Berylson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Amy Smith and John G Berylson 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.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.6MScience & Tech$410kHealth$107kRecreation & Sports$60kPhilanthropy$48kReligion$13kEnvironment$5kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILTON ACADEMY$57,500
Individual grant recipient$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$37,500
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$15,500
DANA FARBER INC$12,500
JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC$12,500
STEPPINGSTONE FDN$10,000
CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM INC$1,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL: $13k → 8%WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%DANA FARBER INC: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL: $13k → 22%STEPPINGSTONE FDN: $10k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $38k → 17%BROWN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS: $38k → 14%MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL: $13k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL: $13k → 22%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $16k → 7%MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL: $13k → 22%BROWN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS: $13k → 14%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $16k → 7%JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $13k → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $103k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $13k → 7%MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL: $5k → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $55k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $13k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $200k → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $54k → 16%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $10k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $120k → 8%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $28k → 16%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $8k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $63k → 8%HARVARD VARSITY CLUB: $5k → 16%MILTON ACADEMY: $293k → 7%HARVARD UNVERSITY: $50k → 8%THE STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%MILTON ACADEMY: $293k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $28k → 8%MILTON ACADEMY: $268k → 7%MILTON ACADEMY: $143k → 7%MILTON ACADEMY: $58k → 7%MILTON ACADEMY: $43k → 7%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $13k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%PARK SCHOOL: $13k → 7%PARK SCHOOL: $13k → 7%PARK SCHOOL: $13k → 7%PARK SCHOOL: $13k → 7%APPLE ORCHARD SCHOOL: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$1.7M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+19%

Still filing today

46%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +49%
  • PS
    PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • MS
    MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED
    4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +125%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • HV
    HARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is The Stepping Stones Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILTON ACADEMY: $1,095,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $411,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+7 more: $140,500 · Education+7 moreHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $238,500 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $73,500 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENG…Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBROWN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS: $50,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICSUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL: $37,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA…BROWN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $25,500 · Other+11 more: $57,735 · Other+11 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $37,500 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Community ImprovementDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,500 · HealthWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $250 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,646,500Other$532,735Philanthropy$37,500Community Improvement$25,000Health$17,500Environment$5,000Arts & Culture$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $1,095,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $411,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $73,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELMONT GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Richard & Susan Smith…Combined Jewish Phila…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Richard & Susan Smith Family FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amy Smith and John G Berylson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy Smith and John G Berylson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Amy Smith and John G Berylson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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