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Safty5 Foundation Gordon Owades Trustee
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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $50,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $24,054 |
| TEMPLE EMUNAH OF LEXINGTON | $15,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISAIAH OF LEXINGTON | $5,800 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ITREK | $5,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $1,800 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL | $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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Safty5 Foundation Gordon Owades Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +20%
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $169k · revenue +104%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES7× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $11k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -45%
- COCHABAD OF THE BLUEGRASSone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…
Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…
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.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
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.
The university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…
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…
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Leslie St Fang Foundation. 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 151 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds ITREK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPSTART BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST TENNESSEINC STARKS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
- Who funds Haifa Foundation North America Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON POLICE PATROLMAN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation
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 Safty5 Foundation Gordon Owades Trustee 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
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- English at Large Inc — 49% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc — 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Care Central Vna & Hospice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.