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Irving and Sulamith Blackberg Charit at a glance

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Irving and Sulamith Blackberg Charit

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$274kArts & Culture$183kHealth$140kEnvironment$104kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$15k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSSETTS$40,000
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC$20,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$15,000
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY$10,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSET$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSSETTS: $40k → 12%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $30k → 16%Wgbh Educational Foundation: $33k → 17%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%Rails to Trails Conservancy: $20k → 14%THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSSETTS: $40k → 12%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY FDN WESTERN MASS: $30k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $30k → 17%Rails to Trails Conservancy: $15k → 14%THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSSETTS: $40k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASS INC: $15k → 16%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $25k → 17%Rails to Trails Conservancy: $15k → 14%THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSSETTS: $40k → 12%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $20k → 17%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $15k → 14%The Food Bank Of Western Massachusetts I: $35k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSET: $10k → 16%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $20k → 17%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $10k → 14%The Food Bank Of Western Massachusetts I: $34k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSET: $10k → 16%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $20k → 17%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $10k → 14%The Food Bank Of Western Massachusetts I: $25k → 12%Wgbh Educational Foundation: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY FDN WESTERN MASS: $20k → 17%Rails to Trails Conservancy: $10k → 14%The Food Bank Of Western Massachusetts I: $20k → 12%Wgbh Educational Foundation: $20k → 16%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15k → 17%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $9k → 14%Easthampton Community Center: $15k → 12%COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 14%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$691k · 7 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$691k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+4%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $274k · revenue +107%
  • RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $104k · revenue +4%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +11%
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
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
4
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
5
National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc

The national network of public health institutes, inc. (nnphi) is a national public health organization chartered on june 21, 2001. its mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes…

Health
6
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Power to Decide

Power to decide envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. its mission is to advance…

Human Services
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
12
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Public Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $274,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCCOMMUNITY FDN WESTERN MASS: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FDN WESTERN MASSPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASS INC: $15,000 · OtherEASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA I…WGBH Educational Foundation: $83,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundatio…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $60,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $15,000 · HealthNational Kidney Fo…RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $104,000 · EnvironmentRAILS TO TRAILS…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$354,000Arts & Culture$183,000Health$125,000Environment$104,000Public Benefit$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $274,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $104,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $83,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Irving and Sulamith Blackberg Charit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving and Sulamith Blackberg Charit. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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