· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF NEWTON | $100 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100 |
| JACK SOBLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| HEBREW COLLEGE | $100 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREATER BOYNTON BEACH | $75 |
| NATIONAL PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $50 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +32% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC4× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +99%
- RIROFEH INC5× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +106%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $519 · revenue +32%
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%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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The center owns and operates a 141 bed skilled nursing facility that provides inpatient long-term care and recuperative services for its patients.
YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nissie and Ethel Grossman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nissie and Ethel Grossman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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