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Greenwald Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$733k
Granted FY2023
57
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Greenwald Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Greenwald Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 43 organizations, $733k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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20
’18
27
’19
21
’20
31
’21
36
’22
43
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.8MEnvironment$708kInternational$580kCivil Rights$264kHuman Services$200kHealth$149kScience & Tech$106kFood & Nutrition$73kOther$0
02FY2023 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k25 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER$60,000
GIVE DIRECTLY$50,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
CERES$30,000
IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST$28,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$25,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$25,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$25,000
NAACP FOUNDATION$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
MIRA COALITION$20,000
WGBH$20,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$20,000
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 (FY17–23, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%OZONE HOUSE: $3k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%OZONE HOUSE: $3k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%OZONE HOUSE: $2k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 8%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $5k → 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

VT
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 59 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+209%

Still filing today

64%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $216k · revenue +113%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $195k · revenue +98%
  • CI
    CERES INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $98k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -29%
  • EF
    EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • ED
    EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +20%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
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
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Build Health International Inc. 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

56 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. 56 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
45/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,812,912 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDPASSIM: $95,000 · OtherPASSIMMIT: $70,000 · OtherMITGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $55,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD B…WGBH: $40,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AM: $30,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $85,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $36,000 · OtherIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $28,000 · Other+54 more: $347,450 · Other+54 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $235,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB…CERES INC: $98,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDL…NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $20,500 · EnvironmentHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $15,000 · Environment+5 more: $35,750 · Environment+5 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $195,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…International Rescue Committee INC: $75,000 · InternationalInternation…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $44,500 · InternationalAMERICAN NE…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $35,000 · InternationalUNITED STAT…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 · International+2 more: $12,500 · InternationalGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECT…ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFAC…+3 more: $24,000 · Human Services+3 moreWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $216,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNAACP FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $20,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Community Improvement$1,812,912Other$818,950Environment$434,750International$432,000Human Services$399,000Science & Tech$216,000Civil Rights$177,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,812,912 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $235,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $216,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCERES INC: $98,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $44,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $28,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $19,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND NATURE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSail for Epilepsy LTD: $8,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWE THE PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY FARM INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYDAY DEMOCRACY INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Alchemy FoundationHighland Street Conne…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Robert Wood Johns…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…
Boston Foundation IncMA27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Alchemy Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Greenwald Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greenwald Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Maranyundo Initiative Inc: 85% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 93 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home