· Private foundation
Cahn Fund for Social Change Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE | $52,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND | $35,000 |
| SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC (SURJEDORG) | $20,000 |
| T'RUAH | $17,500 |
| STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRATION JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOLORG | $10,000 |
| COLABORATIVA LA MILPA | $5,000 |
| THE FEELS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SISTER SONG | $2,140 |
| SANSORG SANS INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| STEM NOLA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| STUDIO IN THE WOODSORG | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 11 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- R2RIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE3× · 2023–2025 · $79k · revenue +107%
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +52%
KIND INC4× · 2019–2022 · $46k · revenue +219%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF PUERTO RICOone grant, 2018 · $16k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +23%
- SUSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
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.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
Education and Research
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…
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abby Kelley Foster House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOKS INC ↗
- Who funds STATE VOICES ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEELS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Colaborativa La Milpa ↗
- Who funds THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · New Venture Fund · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cahn Fund for Social Change Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Children's Foundation Inc — 96% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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