· Private foundation
Press 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CAMP JABBERWOCKY | $2,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC | $2,000 |
| CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER | $1,037 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KEREN OR INC | $1,000 |
| THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | $1,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $1,000 |
| HARVARD HILLEL | $1,000 |
| PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YIDDISH BOOK CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Press Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 57%.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +41%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +88%
- HFHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- AOALS ONE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +95%
- BRBENJAMIN R CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAWYESHIVA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
See schedule ojewish news service, inc. ("jns") was organized as a non-profit corporation under the general laws of massachusetts and is an independent business resource and syndication service covering jewish news and israel news for…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
(see on schedule o)
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 110 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 PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEREN OR INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PLYMOUTH ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PENNIES FOR HUNGER ↗
- Who funds ALS ONE INC ↗
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 · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Press Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Press Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- The Harvard Krokodiloes Inc: 7% of income from government
- Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf: 4% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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