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Cail Family 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$295kHealth$268kPhilanthropy$171kHuman Services$161kCivil Rights$155kHousing & Shelter$153kInternational$98kArts & Culture$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIMMER & MAY SCHOOL$20,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON$10,000
HEBREW COLLEGE$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $100 → 8%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT: $500 → 7%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $750 → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $25 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
IA
NE
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 51 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
26

Total granted

$1.2M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+51%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +19%
  • 2C
    2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +992%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +96%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +29%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR AIDS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
12
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ashe County Rescue Squad. 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

56 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. 56 of the 80 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
43/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEBREW COLLEGE: $150,250 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGEBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOLUniversity of Miami: $47,876 · EducationUniversity of MiamiPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $23,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE…+3 more: $12,000 · EducationMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $70,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS: $70,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $17,500 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION: $14,025 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $45,000 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC: $16,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $21,000 · Other+45 more: $149,000 · Other+45 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $171,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewi…+1 more: $25 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $140,125 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $7,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $7,000 · Human Services+5 more: $2,375 · Human Services2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $140,000 · Housing & Shelter2LIFE COMMU…+1 more: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $105,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAM…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $25,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN J…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $21,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,500 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · International
Education$283,126Other$418,525Philanthropy$171,025Human Services$164,500Housing & Shelter$143,500Civil Rights$130,000International$87,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $171,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $150,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $140,125 over 9y, 0.1% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $47,876 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC: $16,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER HOME RESCUE NEW ENGLAND INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BINA FARM INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Lawrence J and Anne R…Rosalyn and Richard S…William and Cynthia M…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Amelia Peabody Charit…The US Charitable Gif…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Lawrence J and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation · Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Charitable Trust · William and Cynthia Marcus Family Charitable Trust · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Cail Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cail Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 80 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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