· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HHHEADING HOME BOSTONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BBB'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 65 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 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 GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PLYMOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds URBANITY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jackson & Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jackson & Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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