· Private foundation
James & Melinda Rabb Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $366k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $241,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $75,000 |
| WGBH | $50,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,500 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $22,600 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $14,552 |
| CHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE | $1,500 |
| PARK SCHOOL FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $150 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON | $100 |
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 (FY18–20, $525) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS6× · 2018–2024 · $332k · revenue +40%
BOSTON BALLET INC7× · 2018–2024 · $302k · revenue +36%
Trustees of Tufts College6× · 2018–2023 · $283k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +253%
DANA HALL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +32%- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -13%
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.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD GLEE GLUB ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JAMESON SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · James M Rabb & Melinda a Rabb Charitable Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Gerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · The Klarman Family Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James & Melinda Rabb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Melinda Rabb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Jameson Singers Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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