· Private foundation
Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROHN & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| SHIRAT HAYAM | $15,500 |
| ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| KELLIE KENNEDY GOLF CLASSIC | $5,000 |
| ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $5,000 |
| OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF SHARON | $2,400 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE | $2,000 |
| PURPURA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| JCC OF THE NORTH SHORE | $1,825 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| MARR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +4%
- FOFRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC3× · 2021–2023 · $67k · revenue +54%
- OPOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BLBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $179k · revenue -16%
- CMCONGREGATION MISHKAN TEFILAone grant, 2021 · $120k
- CCCROHN'S & COLITITS FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $110k
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.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
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.
Friends of dana-farber cancer institute supports the efforts of the dana-farber cancer institute.
Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the High Line Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marr Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LAPPIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PURPURA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds MARR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS ↗
- Who funds THE PINK AGENDA 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation 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.
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 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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