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Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich’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 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $87k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k28 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GATEWAYS | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL ONCOLOGY | $10,000 |
| 18DOORS | $5,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK | $5,000 |
| HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $3,800 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $3,600 |
| CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON | $2,500 |
| JARTS BOSTON | $2,000 |
| CAMP TEVYA | $2,000 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| THE PLUS COMPANY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 29 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DIDISCALCED INC4× · 2018–2021 · $46k · revenue +8%
- JGJEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +132%
- AJAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- LFLifebox Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +500%
- VCVELLORE CMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- OONEGOALone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
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…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvard Musical Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds GO ONCOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lifebox Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds The PLUS Company Inc ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Wender Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Covenant Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% of income from government
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.