· Private foundation
Samuel & Nancy Jo Altschuler 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRM | $40,000 |
| HANCOCK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $37,500 |
| WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC | $25,000 |
| THE BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC | $20,000 |
| SPAULDING REHAB HOSPITAL CORP | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC | $10,000 |
| LANDMARK SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND DREAM CENTER INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 19% of Samuel & Nancy Jo Altschuler Family Foundation’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 +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +63%- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +5%
- WIWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- PHPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - SPAULDING REHAB Hone grant, 2022 · $20k
PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -5%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
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.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.…
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Cary Memorial Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
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 40 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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REAGLE MUSIC THEATRE OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE BINA FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lexington Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Blessed Stephen Bellesini OSA Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds YJK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
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 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Samuel & Nancy Jo Altschuler 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.
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology 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.