· 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 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.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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…
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 81 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 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 BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROFEH INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fine Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fine Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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