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Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts Inc

The jewish federation of central mass, inc.

$695k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$172k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$852kCommunity Improvement$80kHealth$79kInternational$79kReligion$55kEnvironment$40kEducation$35kCrime & Legal$14kOther$1.2M
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $583,060 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $695,267 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,207 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $248k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $283k
$13,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$171,750
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$110,815
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$47,373
CENTRAL MA TORAH CENTER$41,650
CONGREGATION B'NAI SHALOM$32,066
VETERANS INC$30,000
JEWISH HEALTH CARE CENTER$23,200
TEMPLE EMANUEL SINAI$19,894
BETH TIKVAH SYNAGOGUE$19,576
UMASS MEDICAL CHABAD$13,400
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$10,777
COMMUNITY GARDENS$10,000
CONGREGATION AGUDAT ACHIM$7,347
SHIR JOY CHORUS$7,262
FINDING OUR VOICES$7,200
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $852k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $6k → 11%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $6k → 11%NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $6k → 11%BELEV ECHAD: $14k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $117k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $111k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $105k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $101k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $92k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $87k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $87k → 11%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 23 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$2.3M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

65%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationReligionEnvironmentOther

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

  • WJ
    WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $821k · revenue +83%
  • VI
    VETERANS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +14%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • LC
    LUBAVITCH CHABAD OF WESTBOROUGH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

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The Jerusalem Connection
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2
Jewish Family Services of Greenwich

Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…

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3
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc

The jewish federation of greater washington (federation) envisions a connected and vibrant jewish community that cares for each other, fosters jewish learning and journeys, embraces jewish peoplehood and israel, and acts as a force for…

Philanthropy
7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Sherit Isroel
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10
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
11
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

The jewish federation of greater philadelphia mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to create a bright future for jewish people everywhere. the jewish federation cares for those in need, combats antisemitism and global crises, and…

Philanthropy
12
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture

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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr14%67%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,324

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

25 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. 25 of the 36 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION BNAI SHALOM INC — $461,085 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI SHALOM INCTEMPLE EMANUEL SINAI — $167,403 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL SINAITORAH CENTER OF GREATER WORCESTER INC — $156,696 · OtherTORAH CENTER OF GREATER WORCESTER INCBETH TIKVAH SYNAGOGUE — $97,033 · OtherBETH TIKVAH SYNAGOGUETHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $93,243 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATIONJHL LEDGER LLC — $54,000 · Other+15 more — $295,842 · Other+15 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,187,292 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMER…WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $820,961 · Human ServicesWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY…+2 more — $31,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $19,817 · Community ImprovementJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC — $34,745 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $21,500 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIA — $18,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF MORSELIFE INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $62,256 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $6,250 · InternationalLUBAVITCH CHABAD OF WESTBOROUGH INC — $30,012 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $25,100 · Religion
Other$1,325,302Philanthropy$1,187,292Human Services$852,461Community Improvement$79,817Health$79,245International$78,506Religion$55,112

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,187,292 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $820,961 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $93,243 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $62,256 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $37,263 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC — $34,745 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUBAVITCH CHABAD OF WESTBOROUGH INC — $30,012 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $25,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ORT INC — $25,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $19,817 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY ACADIA — $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT — $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMETROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF — $17,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFinding Our Voices — $14,400 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC — $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MORSELIFE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Melvin S Cutler Chari…Maine Community Found…Schwartz Charitable F…Combined Jewish Phila…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Melvin S Cutler Charitable FoundationMA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 36 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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