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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.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$140kCivil Rights$102kCrime & Legal$81kEducation$81kHealth$80kHuman Services$77kInternational$59kEmployment$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$2,140
Median grant
11
States reached
$423k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL INC$10,000
STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRATION JUSTICE$10,000
FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOLORG$10,000
THE FEELS FOUNDATION$5,000
ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION$5,000
COLABORATIVA LA MILPA$5,000
SISTER SONG$2,140
SANSORG SANS INSTITUTE$2,000
STEM NOLA$2,000
ABORTION LIBERATION FUNDORG$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $11k → 8%ABORTION LIBERATION FUNDORG: $2k → 22%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRATION JUSTICE: $10k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRATION JUSTICE: $5k → 16%GREATER SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $200 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$630k · 33 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
29

Total granted

$630k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+25%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationInternationalOther
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

  • R2
    RIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $79k · revenue +107%
  • OS
    OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +52%
  • KIND INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $46k · revenue +219%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +23%
  • SU
    SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +98%
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
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
2
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
3
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Ceres Inc

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…

Environment
6
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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7
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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8
Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
9
Center for International Policy Inc

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…

International
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
12
Alliance for Safety and Justice

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,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 73 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION (ACE): $35,900 · OtherAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION (ACE)FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOLORG: $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOLORGSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC (SURJEDORG): $20,000 · OtherSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC (SURJED…BARD COLLEGE PRISON INITIATIVE: $19,250 · OtherBARD COLLEGE PRISON INITIATIVEJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF PUERTO RICO: $15,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF PUERTO RICOCONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM: $10,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $15,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $11,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COOKS INC: $25,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY COOKS INCTHE FEELS FOUNDATION: $16,500 · OtherTHE FEELS FOUNDATION+35 more: $74,984 · Other+35 moreRIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE: $79,250 · EducationRIDESHARE 2 VOTE A…OUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $48,000 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOOL+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $49,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S TR…KIND INC: $45,850 · Crime & LegalKIND INC+2 more: $750 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EM…STATE VOICES: $25,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICESTREVOR PROJECT INC: $11,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJEC…SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $9,500 · Civil RightsSHOWING UP FO…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $7,750 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVI…PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $35,000 · HealthPLANNED P…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $13,800 · HealthAMERICAN …NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 · HealthNATIONAL …Children's Hospital Corporation: $3,000 · Health+4 more: $3,530 · Health+4 moreT'RUAH: $41,300 · InternationalT'RUAHGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,500 · InternationalGRASSROOT…+1 more: $200 · InternationalPHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION: $46,500 · EmploymentRESTORATION PROJECT INC: $2,600 · Employment
Other$284,584Education$128,250Crime & Legal$95,600Civil Rights$93,750Health$65,830International$64,000Employment$49,100

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 budgetRIDESHARE 2 VOTE AWARE: $79,250 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $49,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $48,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION: $46,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetKIND INC: $45,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetT'RUAH: $41,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOKS INC: $25,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FEELS FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $13,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $7,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30 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.

Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncAmerican Tower Corpor…Eastern Bank Foundati…New Venture FundSchwartz Charitable F…Rockland Trust Charit…Analog Devices Founda…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cahn Fund for Social Change Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cahn Fund for Social Change Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Cahn Fund for Social Change Inc 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 73 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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