· Private foundation
Randi and David Zussman 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of RANDI AND DAVID ZUSSMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AS YOU SOW | $10,000 |
| ACTIVE MINDS | $10,000 |
| KISS THE GROUND | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AANE ASPERGERAUTISM NETWORK | $8,000 |
| AMPLIFIER | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF GREATER BOSTON | $2,500 |
| J M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON | $2,500 |
| MOTHERS MILK BANK OF NE | $1,257 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,047 |
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 (FY19–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 49 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- AFASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +65%
Trustees of Tufts College3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%- 2C2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC5× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +992%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $11k
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -2%
- C(CJP (COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTROPHIES)one grant, 2019 · $10k
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 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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Newton Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 177 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 AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SEL4US INC ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds KISS THE GROUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Spark Newton Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
- Who funds Green Dog Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Amplifier Foundation ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · GivenGain Foundation USA · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc
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 Randi and David Zussman 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
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 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
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Newton Cultural Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Charles River Regional Chamberinc — 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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