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Kahn Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK (GBFB) | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| WELLSPRING INC DBA WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| TEAM NEW ENGLAND YOUTH ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| CHABAD HOUSE JEWISH CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $4,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $3,000 |
| MOUNT SNOW ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $2,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS & RHODE ISLAND INC | $2,000 |
| WELLESLEY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| FRESHMAN FRESH START INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
- MSMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED4× · 2017–2020 · $165k · revenue +60%
- JHJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +26%
- ITISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TLTHE LEANDRO P RIZZUTO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -7%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation. 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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 119 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
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 MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LEAGUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARAGON CAROUSEL INC ↗
- Who funds PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Curetivity Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Mount Snow Adaptive Sports Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHMAN FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds Team New England Youth Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds The Unicorn Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL ROTHBERG SEPT 11TH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 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: GivenGain Foundation USA · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Jack Tarver Fdn Irrv Tr · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank 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 Kahn Family 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.
- Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc — 63% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Elizabeth Seton Residence Inc — 9% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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