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Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $440k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$130,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
THE SCHWARTZ CENTER$85,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$50,000
BOTTOM LINE FOUNDATION$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD BOSTON$40,000
PINE STREET INN$30,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NEW ENGLAND$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
DAV CHARITABLE SVC TRUST$15,000
PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH$12,500
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$12,000
NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $122k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PINE STREET INN: $30k → 16%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: $2k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
KY
VA
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 39 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
18

Total granted

$3.3M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+36%

Still filing today

56%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEducationHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +78%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +123%

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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Boston Architectural College

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

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4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

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5
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
6
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
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
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
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
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Ibis Reproductive Health Inc

Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $610,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $558,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBOTTOM LINE FOUNDATION: $195,000 · OtherBOTTOM LINE FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $85,000 · Other+47 more: $594,050 · Other+47 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $1,010,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College+2 more: $6,250 · EducationSUMMER SEARCH: $205,000 · EmploymentJUSTICE AT WORK INC: $9,000 · EmploymentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $122,500 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $15,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsPINE STREET INN INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $17,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $60,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$2,042,050Education$1,016,250Employment$214,000Civil Rights$153,000Human Services$124,000Philanthropy$105,000Health$60,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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: $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
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 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 Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗

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 E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie Cohen Stanzler Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Justice at Work Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home