· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF BOSTON | $85,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON | $60,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $54,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| WBUR | $42,000 |
| WGBH | $40,358 |
| MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS | $31,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| KOLLEL OF GREATER BOSTON | $25,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HEBREW SENIOR LIFE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $10,500 |
| UMASS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 12 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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 Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +123%- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +6%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS8× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 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.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
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…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
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…
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…
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 83 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Wellmet Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Kollel of Greater Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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