· Private foundation
Nissie and Ethel Grossman Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Nissie and Ethel Grossman Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Nissie and Ethel Grossman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $3k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROFEH INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| TEMPLE AHAVAT ACHIM | $450 |
| HEBREW SENIOR LIFE | $400 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $400 |
| NEW ENGLAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $350 |
| LOWN RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $200 |
| YIDDISH BOOK CENTER | $187 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $150 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100 |
| HEBREW COLLEGE | $100 |
| JACK SOBLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF NEWTON | $100 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREATER BOYNTON BEACH | $75 |
| AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE FOUNDATION | $50 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC4× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +99%
- HSHebrew Senior Life Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +35%
- RIROFEH INC5× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- SLST LUKE'S-SAN LUCAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $50
- NBNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50 · revenue +32%
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.
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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 Jack M Soble Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds ROFEH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds JACK M SOBLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY 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.
Open a dossier: Reuben and Lizzie Grossman Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Nissie and Ethel Grossman 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.
- New England Hebrew Academy — 10% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center 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
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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