How much does David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust give?

David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust reported 57 grants totaling $74,521 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastern University ($190k), Temple Beth Shalom ($128k), National Braille Press Inc ($47k).

Does David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.

David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust

David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust at a glance

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David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust

Q: What does David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Religion (26%), Health (17%).

Q: Where is David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust based?

David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust is based in MA.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$228kReligion$168kHealth$110kArts & Culture$53kPhilanthropy$18kHuman Services$15kHousing & Shelter$9kInternational$8kOther$0

02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k56 grants · $39k
$10k–50k1 grant · $35k

$200

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM	$35,463
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON	$8,250
NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS	$6,000
EASTERN UNIVERSITY	$5,967
TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA	$2,897
2 LIFE COMMUNITIES	$2,500
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES	$2,000
TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER	$1,500
SALVATION ARMY	$1,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE	$550
ALYSSA ROTMAN RESEARCH FUND	$500
KAJABE CHILDRENS EDUCATIONAL FUND	$450
NEEDHAM EXCHANGE CLUB	$300
THE JIMMY FUND	$300
Individual grant recipient	$254

02The need

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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$580k · 93 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141

Total granted

$580k

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+15%

Still filing today

55%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & 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

EU
EASTERN UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +75%
NB
NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +8%
TC
THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +17%

Funded once

TB
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM EMERGENCY FUND
one grant, 2020 · $5k
JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -4%
TS
TEMPLE SHALOM INC
one grant, 2021 · $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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health

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

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.

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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

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 Service of Metrowest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hopkin 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

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 253 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

102/102

Grantees still filing

66/102

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$327,598Education$211,832Arts & Culture$50,650Health$17,975Philanthropy$16,900Human Services$10,750Housing & Shelter$4,880

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA40.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Simon B Gottlieb Charitable Foundation · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation 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 David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

30get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

4rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home