· 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.
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.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | $7,800 |
| Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island | $5,000 |
| Anti Defamation League | $4,000 |
| Sturdy Health | $4,000 |
| U.S. Holocaust Museum | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| Brookline Food Pantry | $2,000 |
| Sportsmens Tennis Club | $2,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Brandeis University Rose Arts Museum | $1,948 |
| HADASSAH | $1,500 |
| Fresh Air Fund | $1,000 |
| Operation Smile | $500 |
| Special Olympics | $500 |
| Falmouth Public Library | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +123%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +47%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +116%
Funded once
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +50%
BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +9%
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 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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 75 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds STURDY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE 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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forman Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forman Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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