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Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of JOSEPH AND RAE GANN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k194 grants · $270k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESVITA OF GREATER BOSTON | $200,000 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER | $180,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $106,755 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $105,360 |
| GANN ACADEMY - NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| SHALOH HOUSE | $60,200 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $55,521 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $52,000 |
| HEBREW COLLEGE | $40,360 |
| MACHNE ISRAEL | $26,000 |
| CAMERA | $22,700 |
| BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC | $22,600 |
| TORAH ACADEMY | $21,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
372 repeat relationships — 203 still active in FY2025, 169 since wound down; 29 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HCHEBREW COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $965k · revenue +13%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $485k · revenue +106%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $331k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CJCHABAD JEWISH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $118k
- GAGANN ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $87k
- ACAMIT CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $26k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
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 Bulloughs Pond Association 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
298 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. 298 of the 585 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ROFEH INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA JEWISH LIFECARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE 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.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rosalyn and Richard Slifka Charitable Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Ruderman Family Foundation · The Beker Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- New England Hebrew Academy — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 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
- Kollel of Greater Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
- Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Community Day School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
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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