Massachusetts · Private foundation
Gerald Flaxer Charitable 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.
- $671k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $561k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $130k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $129k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $96k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $136k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $103k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $110k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, 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 | $138,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $133,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $94,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Congregation Adath Israel Temple Israel | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $75,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Boston Jewish Film Inc | $73,800 | 7 | 4% |
| Bryn Mawr College | $53,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $49,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $48,005 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Israel Incorporated | $38,900 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($343k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · James & Melinda Rabb Family Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation give?
- Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $670,558 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (17%), Health (16%).
- Who are Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($139k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($133k), Museum of Fine Arts ($94k).
- Does Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation 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 Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation based?
- Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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