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Simon B Gottlieb Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Simon B Gottlieb Charitable 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.

$909k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.8MReligion$807kEducation$578kHealth$370kHuman Services$325kCivil Rights$180kInternational$148kArts & Culture$136kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $392k
$18,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RASHI SCHOOL$150,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$100,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$92,200
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$31,000
JCC GREATER BOSTON$30,000
ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$28,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST$25,025
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL$25,000
HADASSAH$25,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$25,000
TORAH ACADEMY$25,000
ITREK$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $50k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $35k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $10k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $55k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $30k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%ONE FAMILY: $25k → 16%ONE FAMILY: $15k → 16%ONE FAMILY: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
TN
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 35 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
21

Total granted

$2.9M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+22%

Still filing today

57%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +23%
  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    3× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +233%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • AD
    ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • UO
    University of Miami
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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3
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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4
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
5
Jumpstart Labs Inc Dba Jewish Jumpstart Jslabs

To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…

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6
Mit Hillel Foundation Inc

Mit hillel foundation, inc. ("the foundation") is a not-for-profit organization which promotes, fosters and sponsors programs for the jewish student body and jewish community at the massachusetts institute of technology, inc. (mit) mit…

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7
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
8
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc

To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.

International
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Hillel House At the University of Mass At Amherst

The mission of umass hillel is to empower students through the vitality of jewish life to cultivate healthy, purposeful lives and relationships that better our community and world.

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11
Brown Hillel Foundation

Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…

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12
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RASHI SCHOOL INC: $378,000 · OtherRASHI SCHOOL INCTEMPLE EMANUEL: $322,200 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $175,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITALTEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $158,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHALOMIndividual grant recipient: $148,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTORAH ACADEMY INC: $118,000 · OtherTORAH ACADEMY INCIndividual grant recipient: $106,250 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $75,000 · Other+30 more: $679,550 · Other+30 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $1,509,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater …Hebrew Senior Life Inc: $255,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc+3 more: $55,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $120,025 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $110,000 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $56,000 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $25,000 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $23,000 · EducationTHE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EducationKEREN OR INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,800 · EducationITREK INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $50,000 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $40,000 · InternationalBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBrothers for Life: $95,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,160,500Philanthropy$1,819,000Human Services$280,025Education$156,800International$140,000Health$126,000Arts & Culture$121,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $1,509,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $255,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $120,025 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBrothers for Life: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $56,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITREK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetONE FAMILY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Bullpen Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSCHALLENGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIFERETH RAPHAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ITREK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Bullpen Project Inc ↗

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Joseph and Rae Gann C…David J Feldman and S…Adelson Family Founda…The Beker FoundationThe Shapiro FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Klarman Family Fo…Cummings Foundation G…Jewish Communal Fund
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA49.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · David J Feldman and Sydney E Feldman Charitable Trust · Adelson Family Foundation · The Beker Foundation · The Shapiro Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Jewish Communal Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Simon B Gottlieb Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simon B Gottlieb Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Tifereth Raphael Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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