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Celia & Izzy Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Celia & Izzy Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2018
9
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$800
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Housing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$2kHealth$1kEmployment$1kPhilanthropy$1kEducation$1kCivil Rights$800Community Improvement$500
02FY2018 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$800
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY LIFE - VIDA URBANA$800
WOMENS INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP$800
BOSTON WOMENS FUND$800
MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCAY COALITION$800
MASSCOSH$800
COMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC$800
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY$800
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$300
SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS$300
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 (FY17–18, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $300 → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $250 → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 8 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +148% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$9k
$500

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
+43%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Crime & LegalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +148%
  • UR
    URBAN REVIVAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +268%
  • AF
    ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • SOCIEDAD LATINA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +43%
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 Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
3
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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4
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
5
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement
6
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
7
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
8
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
9
United Interfaith Action of Se Ma

Uia is a multi-faith, multi-purpose npo working collaboratively on issues to promote social, economic and racial justice. uia recruits and trains leaders and clergy to act on issues, negotiate change and commit to the community.

Human Services
10
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
La Colaborativa Inc

Empower latinx immigrants to enhance the social and economic health of our community and people and to hold institutional decision makers accountable to the communities they serve.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Women's Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Artists for Humanity 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN REVIVAL INC: $1,300 · OtherURBAN REVIVAL INCWOMENS INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP: $1,100 · OtherWOMENS INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIPSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $500 · OtherSOCIEDAD LATINA INCSPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INC: $500 · OtherSPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INCCOMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC: $1,300 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY SERV…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,300 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HU…MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC: $1,300 · Public Safety & DisasterMASSACHUSETTS …BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC: $1,300 · PhilanthropyBOSTON WOMEN'S…MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $800 · Civil RightsMASSACHUS…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $550 · Human Services
Other$3,400Crime & Legal$1,300Arts & Culture$1,300Public Safety & Disaster$1,300Philanthropy$1,300Civil Rights$800Human Services$550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The Hyams Foundation …Barr FoundationBoston Foundation IncChildren's Hospital C…The New World Foundat…Health Resources in A…Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The Hyams Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyams Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · The New World Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Spontaneous Celebrations Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 10 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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