Massachusetts · Private foundation
Schechter 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Schechter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $28k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $48k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $21k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $9k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $76,500 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Delaware | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 2life Communities Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Inc | $4,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $1,880 | 2 | 0% |
| Make a Difference | $1,373 | 3 | 1% |
| Media Matters for America | $1,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Bay Cove Human Services Inc | $1,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The New England Friends of the March of the Living | $1,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Jewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association of Greater Boston | $600 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schechter Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Schechter Foundation
- How much does Schechter Foundation give?
- Schechter Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $27,859 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Schechter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (51%), Philanthropy (19%), Education (8%).
- Who are Schechter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc ($77k), University of Delaware ($10k), 2life Communities Inc ($8k).
- Does Schechter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schechter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schechter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Schechter Foundation based?
- Schechter Foundation is based in MA.
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