· Private foundation
Jean C Tempel Foundation
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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLERGY TRUST OF RCAB | $115,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $75,000 |
| MGB HOMEBASE FOR VETERANS | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $50,000 |
| HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL ST BONIFACE HOSPITAL HAITI | $50,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $50,000 |
| CATIE'S CLOSET | $50,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| ST CECILIA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $30,000 |
| THE MARY ANN BRETT FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| ZOO NEW ENGLAND | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BOSTON | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
21 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PINE STREET INN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +18%
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $150k · revenue +8%- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MGMA GENERAL BRIGHAM AND RED SOX FOUNDATION HOME BASE PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $345k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERSone grant, 2019 · $40k
- EHEILEEN'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN CO GAVIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
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…
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CENTER OF WALTHAM INC ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jean C Tempel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean C Tempel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Community Day Center of Waltham Inc: 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- The New England Council Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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