· Private foundation
Robert L Epstein Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $163,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST | $67,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - HILLEL | $50,000 |
| THE WONDERFUND | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST | $33,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM | $25,000 |
| CAPE COD HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE RASHI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE WOOSTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $7,000 |
| INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC | $5,000 |
| FALMOUTH JEWISH CONGREGATION | $3,500 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
- WSWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION6× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +36%
- TBTHE BASEBALL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +55%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- FRFAMILY REACH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +30%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +44%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -58%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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 incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
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.…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
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 Foundation for Business Equity 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 70 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 RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Alan D and Susan Lewis Solomont Family Foundation · Simon B Gottlieb Charitable Foundation · Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation · The Beker Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Robert L Epstein 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.
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% 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.