· Private foundation
JMS Family Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Beth Israel Milton Hospital | $50,000 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $35,000 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Brookline Community Fund | $10,000 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies | $5,000 |
| The Home for Little Wanderers | $5,000 |
| Rosies Place | $4,000 |
| Milton Council on Aging | $3,500 |
| Brookline Education Foundation | $3,500 |
| Pan Mass Challenge | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +84%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +162%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- SSSouth Shore Health Foundationone grant, 2019 · $30k
- DIDANA-FARBER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +42%
- SSSouth Shore Hospital Foundationone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
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.…
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.
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 50 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Old Colony Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS 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 · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The Flatley Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization JMS Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JMS Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Old Colony Hospice Inc: 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc: 5% of income from government
- Curry College: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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