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Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust

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.

$680k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$130,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$5.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$680k37%
FY202426$424k4%
FY202320$359k10%
FY202228$404k29%
FY202124$564k21%
FY202018$232k28%
FY201924$353k29%
FY201822$308k9%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$930kHealth$625kEmployment$200kCivil Rights$170kCommunity Improvement$146kPhilanthropy$145kHousing & Shelter$97kHuman Services$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
KY
VA
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Tufts College$1,010,00090%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$558,0009n/a
Summer Search$205,00070%
Anti-Defamation League$122,50070%
Pine Street Inn Inc$105,00080%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc$60,00080%
Merit Spread Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$30,00030%
Horizons for Homeless Children$17,00070%
Physicians For Reproductive Health$15,50040%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,010,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Search: $205,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $122,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMerit Spread Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Second Step Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Redistricting Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJustice at Work Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTenacity Inc: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriends Forever: $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCity Year Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Camps Africa Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPhillips Exeter Academy: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCeasefire Pennsylvania: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Forever Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMother Brook Arts and Community Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust

How much does Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust give?
Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust reported 27 grants totaling $679,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (21%), Employment (7%).
Who are Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Tufts College ($1.0M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($558k), Summer Search ($205k).
Does Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust based?
Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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