· Private foundation
Marilyn Kass Cicero and Arthur Bcicero Tzedakah 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Temple Isaiah | $2,366 |
| Project Bread | $216 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $107 |
| Individual grant recipient | $105 |
| Food Link | $103 |
| Project Ezra | $103 |
| elm street school | $78 |
| Novant Health Foundation | $52 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| Childrens miracle netword | $47 |
| Burlington High School Junior Class | $31 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30 |
| Center School PTO | $29 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25 |
| Jewish National Fund | $18 |
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 (FY20–25, $509) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394 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 INC4× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +1%
- CZCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND3× · 2021–2023 · $531 · revenue +55%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $368 · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- WTWANG THEATRE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -39%
- BFBurlington Food Pantryone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
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,…
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.
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.
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.
WGBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.
The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
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).
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 57 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WANG THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds CENTER SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Project Ezra ↗
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: Analog Devices Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marilyn Kass Cicero and Arthur Bcicero Tzedakah Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marilyn Kass Cicero and Arthur Bcicero Tzedakah Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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