· Private foundation
Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROCKTON HOSPITAL | $1,800,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY (FOUNDATION) | $1,193,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S PARK FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $550,000 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $500,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON | $400,000 |
| LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC | $150,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $130,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $125,000 |
| ONE FAMILY INC | $110,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 18 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFONE FAMILY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +25% · 52% of their budget
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +95%- BHBrockton Hospital Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $270k
- BRBOSTON RESILIENCY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250k
- MWMA WONDERFUND INCone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
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…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
How this is measured
140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 190 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 THE PEOPLE'S PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Brockton Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE HURLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
- Team Walker Inc: 68% of income from government
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
- Brockton Hospital Inc: 13% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Clinton Hill Community Action Inc: 6% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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