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Melvin S Cutler 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $82,600 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $70,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS | $69,600 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $54,000 |
| ISEF FOUNDATION | $33,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NE REGION | $30,000 |
| 194 SMALL GRANTS EACH UNDER 1000 ALL TO PUBLIC CHARITIES | $26,625 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC | $24,000 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM | $18,000 |
| WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $18,000 |
| AISH CAMPUS BOSTON | $18,000 |
| OHEL AVRAHAM | $12,000 |
| ABBY'S HOUSE | $12,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 44 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC6× · 2019–2025 · $426k · revenue +234%
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +15%
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC6× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- VIVETERANS INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +14%
- 2S264 SMALL GRANTS EACH UNDER 1000 ALL TO PUBLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $29k
- UMUMASS MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $22k
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.
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…
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…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
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.
Westchester jewish community services (wjcs) is a non-sectarian, not for profit, broad based human service agency dedicated to helping people of all ages cope with emotional, cognitive, environmental, physical, social, and educational…
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.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
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 Northeast Opportunities for Wellness Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 159 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds AISH CAMPUS BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds WATER 4 MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds OHEL AVRAHAM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSWORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The George I Alden Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Coghlin Services Fund · Worcester Railers Hc Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc
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 Melvin S Cutler 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.
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Christopher House Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- William James College Inc — 11% of income from government
- Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Salem Community Corporation — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries 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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