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Paul and Joanne Egerman Family 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$235,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$23M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$915k27%
FY202414$839k36%
FY202312$870k17%
FY202211$767k9%
FY202114$946k29%
FY202014$980kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.4MCivil Rights$1.2MInternational$1.1MHealth$850kArts & Culture$495kPublic Benefit$470kPhilanthropy$415kScience & Tech$415kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc$500,00050%
Association for Promotion of Jewish Secularism Inc$425,000612%
Museum of Science$340,00050%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$320,00040%
J Street Education Fund Inc$210,00041%
T'Ruah$120,00061%
Temple Beth Elohim$90,0004n/a
Progressive Change Institute$70,00045%
Jewish Community Day School Inc$60,00021%
If Not Now Education Fund$55,00032%
Brookline Il Peretz School of the Workmens Circle Inc$50,00024%
Keshet Inc$45,00021%
Human Relations Service Inc$30,00031%
Actblue Charities Inc$20,00010%
Harlem Stories Project Inc$20,000131%
Women Donors Network$20,00010%
Americas Association for the Care of Children$14,00012%
Health Law Advocates Inc$10,00011%
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue$7,2001n/a
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc$5,00010%
Hebrew College$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAssociation for Promotion of Jewish Secularism Inc: $425,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetMuseum of Science: $340,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $320,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $210,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetT'Ruah: $120,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetProgressive Change Institute: $70,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetJewish Community Day School Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIf Not Now Education Fund: $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBrookline Il Peretz School of the Workmens Circle Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKeshet Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHuman Relations Service Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetActblue Charities Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Stories Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetWomen Donors Network: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmericas Association for the Care of Children: $14,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHealth Law Advocates Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInitiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Krupp Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation give?
Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,142,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Civil Rights (17%), International (17%).
Who are Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc ($500k), Association for Promotion of Jewish Secularism Inc ($425k), Museum of Science ($340k).
Does Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable 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 Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Krupp Family Foundation.
Where is Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation based?
Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 36 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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