Massachusetts · Private foundation
Forman 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.
- $53k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $39k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $924k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Forman Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $39k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $64k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $64k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $53k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $51k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $61k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $42k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $47,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Elohim | $40,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $27,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Tenacre Country Day School Corporation | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center Inc | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Brimmer and May School | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Dba Temple Beth-El | $13,475 | 7 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forman Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation · Kane-Barrengos Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Grace K and Wesley S Alpert Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Forman Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Forman Family Charitable Trust give?
- Forman Family Charitable Trust reported 17 itemized grants totaling $38,613, out of $53,222 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Forman Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Religion (16%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Forman Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($48k), Temple Beth Elohim ($40k), Anti-Defamation League ($33k).
- Does Forman Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Forman Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Forman Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Citizens Charitable Foundation, Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation.
- Where is Forman Family Charitable Trust based?
- Forman Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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