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Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable 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.

$406k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$998kEducation$552kInternational$121kReligion$106kAnimals$55kHealth$54kArts & Culture$38kRecreation & Sports$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE$200,000
UMASS DARTMOUTH$100,000
BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$50,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,108
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM$5,000
TIFERETH ISRAEL$3,990
BAKER CENTER FOR CHILDREN$3,160
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$2,600
ANTI DEFAMMATION LEAGUE$2,500
MOBILE MINISTRIES OF NEW BEDFORD$2,500
UNITED WAY OF NEW BEDFORD$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY$2,000
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$1,899
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINESTREET INN: $1k → 16%NEWBRIDGE ON THE CHARLES: $100 → 7%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $4k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDRENS CENTER: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
KS
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 55 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
44

Total granted

$1.8M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+44%

Still filing today

42%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +206%
  • JB
    JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +124%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CN
    Community Nurse Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

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9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc

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,…

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11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newbridge on the charles inc; the most unlike its peers is Share Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hebrew Senior Life Inc: $857,700 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc+2 more: $32,300 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $324,550 · OtherTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITYUMASS DARTMOUTH: $150,000 · OtherUMASS DARTMOUTHTIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $56,998 · OtherTIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUESOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $32,800 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUEL: $32,709 · Other+97 more: $235,359 · Other+97 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $109,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $9,400 · International+3 more: $5,200 · InternationalBUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsFriends of Buttonwood Park Inc: $30,500 · EnvironmentOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,500 · Arts & CultureNew Bedford Festival Theatre Inc: $2,250 · Arts & CultureZEITERION THEATRE INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $550 · Arts & CultureJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $22,730 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human Services
Philanthropy$890,000Other$882,416International$123,600Animals$50,100Environment$30,500Arts & Culture$29,300Human Services$28,330

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $857,700 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $109,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $32,800 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetFriends of Buttonwood Park Inc: $30,500 over 8y, 59% of budgetJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $22,730 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $17,091 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $12,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $9,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD JEWISH CONVALESCENT HOME INC: $7,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $3,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $3,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Bedford Festival Theatre Inc: $2,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZEITERION THEATRE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,920 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,010 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Nurse Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Museum New Bedford Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewbridge on the charles inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Buttonwood Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEDFORD JEWISH CONVALESCENT HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Dedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗

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.

Southcoast Community …The Carney Family Cha…Bristol County Saving…Eastern Bank Foundati…New Bedford Day Nurse…Willow Creek Charitab…Rockland Trust Charit…Arbella Insurance Fou…Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Enable Hope FoundationAlvord Family Foundat…
Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · New Bedford Day Nursery Inc · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Enable Hope Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center: 29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Zeiterion Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home