· Private foundation
Novack Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| SANDY BAY YACHT CLUB SAILING PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| IMPACTISRAEL | $25,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| EAST BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $10,000 |
| DAY BY DAY ADULT CARE | $10,000 |
| ITREK | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $10,000 |
| CAPE ANN ART HAVEN | $10,000 |
| FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
Franciscan Hospital for Children5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +41%- IIIMPACTISRAEL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +108%
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF EASTERN MAone grant, 2020 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +58%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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 119 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 Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds DAY BY DAY ADULT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ITREK INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds REUT USA ↗
- Who funds THACHER & STRAITSMOUTH ISLANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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: 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
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 Novack Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Day By Day Adult Care Inc — 72% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Acord Inc — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.