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Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$449k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$930kHealth$625kEmployment$200kCivil Rights$170kCommunity Improvement$146kPhilanthropy$145kHousing & Shelter$97kHuman Services$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$140,000
THE SCHWARTZ CENTER$55,000
Individual grant recipient$55,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$25,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
SUMMER SEARCH$25,000
BOTTOM LINE FOUNDATION$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$15,000
DISABLED VETERANS CHARITABLE$10,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$8,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $8k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
KY
VA
DC
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 39 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
17

Total granted

$2.8M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $880k · revenue +50%
  • SS
    SUMMER SEARCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +43%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • MS
    MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • MC
    MA COVID RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SS
    SUMMER SEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
The Bridgespan Group Inc

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.

Community Improvement
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
9
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

11
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
12
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

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 Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsEducation Equity LeadershipLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Cancer Support OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Government Accountability R…Community Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Faith-Based Senior LivingAt-Risk Youth MentoringHomeless Services & ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr14%50%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,326

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.

04the grantee network

31 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $485,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $473,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBOTTOM LINE FOUNDATION — $145,000 · OtherBOTTOM LINE FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $85,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+38 more — $399,050 · Other+38 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $880,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College+2 more — $6,250 · EducationSUMMER SEARCH — $200,000 · EmploymentJUSTICE AT WORK INC — $9,000 · EmploymentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $97,500 · Civil RightsCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $3,000 · Civil RightsCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPINE STREET INN INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Other$1,587,050Education$886,250Employment$209,000Civil Rights$105,500Philanthropy$105,000Human Services$92,000Health$50,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $880,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $200,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $97,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 — $15,000 over 6y, 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 budgetJUSTICE AT WORK INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTENACITY INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER — $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC — $6,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER INC — $3,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER BROOK ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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 Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
  • Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC
  • Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC
  • Who funds TENACITY INC
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER
  • Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC
  • Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc
  • Who funds CEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER 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.

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

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 Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • The Second Step Inc26% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Justice at Work Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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