· Private foundation
Falb Family Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FRIEND OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETARY | $1,500 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $400 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDERN | $400 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $200 |
| THE CAMBRIDGE HOMES | $200 |
| THE YARD | $100 |
| CONCORD MUSEUM | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +14%
- FOFRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY7× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +56%
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 37 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 MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE HOMES ↗
- Who funds The Cambridge Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vineyard House Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Falb Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Falb Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society: 11% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery: 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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