· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k28 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GATEWAYS | $15,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL ONCOLOGY | $10,000 |
| HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH GRANDPARENTS NETWORK | $5,000 |
| 18DOORS | $5,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $3,800 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $3,600 |
| CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON | $2,500 |
| CAMP TEVYA | $2,000 |
| JARTS BOSTON | $2,000 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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
How this is measured
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
- VCVELLORE CMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LFLifebox Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +500%
- OONEGOALone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +9%
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.
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…
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 86 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 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 GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lifebox Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris a Berman & Ruth E Nemzoff Family Foundation C/O Mason Rich. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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