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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ZAKIM CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE THERAP$10,000
JCC OF GREATER BOSTON$10,000
WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE$10,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER$10,000
CAMERA$10,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$10,000
CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER$7,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $20k → 8%CHILDRENS 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
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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
1

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
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

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $135k · revenue +77%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $60k · revenue +39%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FORUM
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +63%

Funded once

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; 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 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. 13 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $60,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVIC…AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYZAKIM CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE THERAP: $20,000 · OtherZAKIM CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE THER…HADASSAH: $20,000 · OtherHADASSAHPAN-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…COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $15,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…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 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 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 budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harold and Anna S Ullian Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold and Anna S Ullian Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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