Massachusetts · Private foundation
Novack Family 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.
- $371k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Novack Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $366k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $454k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $246k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $321k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $333k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $341k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franciscan Hospital for Children | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Film Forum Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Public Library | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Impactisrael Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pathways for Childreninc | $76,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Day by Day Adult Care Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Itrek Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Film at Lincoln Center Inc | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Neighborhealth Corporation | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($682k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Novack Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Novack Family Foundation
- How much does Novack Family Foundation give?
- Novack Family Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $371,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Novack Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), International (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Novack Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Franciscan Hospital for Children ($150k), Film Forum Inc ($100k), Brooklyn Public Library ($90k).
- Does Novack Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Novack Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Novack Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Novack Family Foundation based?
- Novack Family Foundation is based in MA.
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