· Private foundation
Fine Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Fine Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston | $76,000 |
| Boston Jewish Film Festival | $10,000 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds | $10,000 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $10,000 |
| AID Coalition | $10,000 |
| Jewish National Fund | $8,000 |
| Vilna Shul Boston's Center for Jewish Culture | $6,100 |
| Reut USA | $5,000 |
| Israeli-American Council | $5,000 |
| Brandeis University | $5,000 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston | $5,000 |
| American Friends of Maoz-Seal | $5,000 |
| Gann Academy | $4,000 |
| Impact Israel Inc | $3,600 |
| Boston Public Art Triennial | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +53%- ICISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL7× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +11%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- TMTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -83%
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $16k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIEone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -22%
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is New London Police Benevolent Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 81 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE VILNA SHUL BOSTONS CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN HAY ESTATE AT THE FELLS ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TIKVOT INC CO ARMEL LESLIE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROFEH 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 · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Ruderman Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Krupp Family Foundation · The Beker Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Charitable Trust · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · One8 Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
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 Fine Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Day School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.