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Shalom Family Charitable 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.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$224k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$167kCivil Rights$131kInternational$59kEducation$46kPhilanthropy$46kHealth$44kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $224k
$2,563
Median grant
3
States reached
$986k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADL$224,000
BETH ISRAEL$15,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$10,000
HILLEL AT UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$10,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,575
UNITED HATZALAH$2,563
PINE STREET INN$2,500
HADASSAH$2,500
JALSA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,010
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CAMP TEVYA$180
THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOSTAGE US: $1k → 6%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $7k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $3k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $2k → 8%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $360 → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $250 → 16%JULIES FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $3k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $2k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
66

Total granted

$1.2M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+26%

Still filing today

38%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +81%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • BG
    BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +69%
  • NW
    NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • BC
    BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
4
Jgs Lifecare Corporation

Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.

Health
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
6
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
9
Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc

Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…

10
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIsrael-Focused Jewish Organ…Medical Research FundingCommunity Arts EducationUniversity Support Organiza…Education and Workforce Dev…Community Integration Servi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr21%33%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr21%10%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr13%60%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
11%
4,552/41,871

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.

04the grantee network

41 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADL — $760,517 · OtherADLANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $106,396 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUETEMPLE EMANUEL — $54,619 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE — $50,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL — $50,000 · Other+81 more — $181,605 · Other+81 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $46,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $103 · EducationCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $40,710 · PhilanthropyGivenGain Foundation USA — $2,625 · PhilanthropyPINE STREET INN INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON — $11,640 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program Inc — $5,500 · Human Services+2 more — $1,610 · Human ServicesBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $5,069 · Civil RightsKESHET INC — $2,512 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $1,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,751 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $300 · Animals
Other$1,203,137Education$66,503Philanthropy$43,335Human Services$31,250Housing & Shelter$15,000Civil Rights$8,581Animals$4,051

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $46,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $40,710 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON — $11,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc — $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $5,069 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,751 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $2,828 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGivenGain Foundation USA — $2,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $2,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $2,563 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET INC — $2,512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CANCER SUPPORT ORG INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSTAGE US INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $740 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC — $610 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN WOMEN'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM FIRE ASSOCIATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
  • Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
  • Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds GivenGain Foundation USA
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Network for Good · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 Shalom Family Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc29% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation12% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc1% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Shalom Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Shalom Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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