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Harold and Anna S Ullian Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$383k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192020.

Health$183kPhilanthropy$178kHuman Services$65kInternational$55kScience & Tech$50kReligion$30kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTE$90,000
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE$80,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES$40,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$30,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE FORUM$15,000
HADASSAH$15,000
WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE$10,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$10,000
CAMERA$10,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$10,000
JCC OF GREATER BOSTON$10,000
ZAKIM CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE THERAP$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$10,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$7,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $8k → 7%THE SECOND STEP: $3k → 8%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE: $80k → 16%SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $15k → 9%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $10k → 17%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $5k → 7%SECOND STEP INC: $3k → 8%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE: $40k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $10k → 9%FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $5k → 7%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTE: $90k → 16%FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $3k → 7%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CTR: $45k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $40k → 8%CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $20k → 8%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 16%HADASSAH: $15k → 8%UNITED WAY OF MA: $8k → 16%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $20k → 8%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $30k → 16%JCC OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES: $20k → 16%AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $10k → 8%CAMERA: $10k → 16%HADASSAH: $5k → 8%CAMERA: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$500k · 14 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
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Total granted

$500k
$8k

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
HealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $135k · revenue +61%
  • HS
    Hebrew Senior Life Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $120k · revenue +12%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $60k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MA
    one grant, 2019 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
4
Institute for Applied Gerontology

The mjhs institute for innovation in palliative care is a not-for-profit organization. the institute is dedicated to promoting access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or…

Human Services
5
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

7
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
8
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
9
Hebrew Seniorlife Hospice Care Inc

The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…

Human Services
10
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
11
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
12
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $60,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVIC…AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYHADASSAH — $20,000 · OtherHADASSAHZAKIM CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE THERAP — $20,000 · OtherZAKIM CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE THER…PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $12,500 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCJCC OF GREATER BOSTON — $10,000 · OtherJCC OF GREATER BOSTONWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS — $10,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSUNITED WAY OF MA — $7,500 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $135,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CE…WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $20,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDIC…Children's Medical Center Corporation — $15,000 · HealthChildren's Medical Center Corpor…Hebrew Senior Life Inc — $120,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life IncCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies o…FRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $15,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE …SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$175,000Health$170,000Philanthropy$170,000International$55,000Arts & Culture$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Center Corporation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Harold and Anna S Ullian Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • The Second Step Inc26% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Harold and Anna S Ullian Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harold and Anna S Ullian Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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