· Private foundation
Eliot I and Ruth Snider Charitable
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS | $120,000 |
| SNIDER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $52,951 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $285k · revenue +64%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS2× · 2023–2024 · $240k
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- FFJECCone grant, 2021 · $2k
- PAPAO ARTS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $500
- BPBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +181%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eliot I and Ruth Snider Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eliot I and Ruth Snider Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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