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Florence & Richard Koplow Family Foundation at a glance

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Florence & Richard Koplow Family Foundation

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.

$328k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$160kReligion$132kInternational$98kArts & Culture$96kYouth Development$63kEducation$61kEnvironment$52kCommunity Improvement$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $275k
$2,600
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION SAFE$40,000
OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER$40,000
EAST OAKLAND ALLIANCE- WIND$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
BRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS FOUNDATION$20,000
SPARK SHARE INC$15,000
YOUTH COUNSELING CONNECTION$10,000
FSHD SOCIETY INC$10,000
CAMPAGNIA DE COLOMBARI$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE$8,000
JEWISH CEMETERY ASSOC OF MA (JCAM)$5,000
LEX EAT TOGETHER$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER: $40k → 10%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $1k → 7%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%WE CAN CORPORATION: $5k → 8%WE CAN CORPORATION: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $300 → 16%WE CAN CORPORATION: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE COUNCIL ON AGING: $500 → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $200 → 16%CLOVER FOUNDATION: $16k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $15k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$706k · 45 repeat orgs$501k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
95

Total granted

$706k
$438k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+4%

Still filing today

62%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MA
    MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +6%
  • LH
    LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $52k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • NP
    New Profit Inc.
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • BM
    Boston Medical Center
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • II
    Invision Institute -WIND
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…

Education
7
The Childrens Museum

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,…

Arts & Culture
8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
9
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
10
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
11
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
12
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc

The university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund; the most unlike its peers is Anne E Borghesani Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 151 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
33/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISAIAH: $85,600 · OtherTEMPLE ISAIAHBRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS FOUNDATION: $80,000 · OtherBRAZELTON TOUCHPOINTS FOUNDATIONEAST OAKLAND ALLIANCE- WIND: $50,000 · OtherEAST OAKLAND ALLIANCE- WINDIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNew Profit Inc.: $40,000 · OtherNew Profit Inc.Boston Medical Center: $35,000 · OtherInvision Institute -WIND: $30,000 · OtherBIDMC: $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $25,000 · OtherMission SAFE: $25,000 · Other+100 more: $295,335 · Other+100 moreMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSA…SparkShare Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSparkShar…+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentOAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER: $40,000 · Human ServicesOAKLAND C…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Child…CLOVER FOUNDATION INC: $16,170 · Human ServicesCLOVER FO…WE CAN CORPORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesWE CAN CO…+6 more: $4,025 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $51,600 · Arts & CultureLa Compagnia de' Colombari Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTerezin Music Foundation Inc: $5,250 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $3,150 · Arts & CultureISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $20,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $15,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $7,300 · InternationalCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $50,150 · Education+4 more: $3,650 · EducationBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $15,000 · HealthFSHD SOCIETY: $11,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · Health
Other$740,935Youth Development$107,000Human Services$105,195Arts & Culture$94,500International$82,300Education$53,800Health$43,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $51,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $50,150 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSparkShare Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $21,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Compagnia de' Colombari Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCLOVER FOUNDATION INC: $16,170 over 1y, 13% of budgetWE CAN CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFSHD SOCIETY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $9,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $7,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LINK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTerezin Music Foundation Inc: $5,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSOCIAL CAPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESHMAN FRESH START INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS - THE ROUNDTABLE OF SUPPORT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Symphony Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Combined Jewish Phila…The Cabot Family Char…Salem Five Charitable…Ciccolo Family Founda…The Hamilton Company …Yawkey Foundation IIAetna Foundation IncFidelity FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA32× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Ciccolo Family Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Aetna Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Florence & Richard Koplow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florence & Richard Koplow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Social Capital Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Society of Arts and Crafts: 10% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lexington Historical Society: 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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