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James M Rabb & Melinda a Rabb Charitable Trust

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.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of JAMES M RABB & MELINDA A RABB CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$45,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$40,250
HARVARD GLEE CLUB FOUNDATION$30,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$25,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$15,000
HARVARD ART MUSEUM$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ANTIDEFIMATION LEAGUE$5,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$4,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
HARVARD HILLEL$2,000
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM$2,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$2,000
CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM$1,600
Individual grant recipient$1,100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$661k · 28 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$661k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+127%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $126k · revenue +14%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +17%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TF
    TUFTS FRIEDMAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +127%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
6
Wheaton College

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

10
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

12
Trustees for Harvard University

To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.

Education

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 The Oley Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community & Israel S…Community Arts EducationCommunity Support ServicesMedical Research FundingUrban Green Space & Communi…University Support Organiza…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 61 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr21%13%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr13%63%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr21%2%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr13%97%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
3,889/37,431

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.

04the grantee network

26 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARVARD GLEE GLUB ALUMNI INC — $145,000 · OtherHARVARD GLEE GLUB ALUMNI INCJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $125,700 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCWGBH — $100,000 · OtherWGBHIndividual grant recipient — $93,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL — $60,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLTEMPLE EMANUEL — $28,610 · Other+32 more — $70,590 · Other+32 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $240,666 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthro…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $76,000 · EducationPresident and…Trustees of Tufts College — $45,000 · EducationTrustees of T…+2 more — $1,700 · EducationMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $18,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $2,500 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $2,110 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $375 · Arts & CultureHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $13,000 · ReligionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,000 · Civil RightsWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $300 · Recreation & Sports
Other$622,950Philanthropy$240,666Education$122,700Arts & Culture$25,985Religion$13,000Civil Rights$5,000Recreation & Sports$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $240,666 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD GLEE GLUB ALUMNI INC — $145,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $125,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $76,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $2,110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $225 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLEY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
  • Who funds HARVARD GLEE GLUB ALUMNI INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
  • Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
  • Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 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.

James & Melinda Rabb Family FoundationMA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James & Melinda Rabb Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 James M Rabb & Melinda a Rabb 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company3% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to James M Rabb & Melinda a Rabb Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to James M Rabb & Melinda a Rabb Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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