· Private foundation
Jackson & Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $472k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PLYMOUTH | $75,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| JDC | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES | $25,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOWDOIN STREET HEALTH CENTER | $22,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S ROOM | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR | $20,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- OFONE FAMILY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +44%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +113%- TCThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AJAMERICAN JEWISH JOIN DISTRIBUTIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
- BBB'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HHHEADING HOME BOSTONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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 university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…
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 Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 65 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 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds BOWDOIN STREET HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PLYMOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds URBANITY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Krupp Family Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Jackson & Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust 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.
- Bowdoin Street Health Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc — 95% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Urbanity Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 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.
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