· Private foundation
Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k26 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $70,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $54,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $54,000 |
| ISEF FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS | $31,800 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC | $30,000 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $24,000 |
| VETERAN'S INC | $24,000 |
| YAD VASHEM USA FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER WORCESTER - TEEN PROGRAM | $18,000 |
| 194 SMALL GRANTS EACH UNDER 1000 ALL TO PUBLIC CHARITIES | $15,630 |
| OHEL AVRAHAM | $15,600 |
| ABBY'S HOUSE | $12,000 |
| CENTRAL MA CHABAB | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
87 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2026, 58 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC7× · 2019–2026 · $496k · revenue +234%
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +15%
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC7× · 2019–2026 · $160k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- 2S264 SMALL GRANTS EACH UNDER 1000 ALL TO PUBLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2020 · $29k
- UMUMASS MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $22k
- TETEMPLE EMANUEL SINAI GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $18k
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.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To operate its harvard medical schools affiliated chronic care hospital that provides seniors with compassionate long-term care, post-acute care, outpatient services and adult day health care.
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.
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 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 umass hillel is to empower students through the vitality of jewish life to cultivate healthy, purposeful lives and relationships that better our community and world.
How this is measured
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 167 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 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 IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OHEL AVRAHAM ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds WATER 4 MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSWORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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