Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sperling Family 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Sperling Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Sperling Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $72,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Sperling Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $940k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $1.9M | 53% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $3,500,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Duke University | $2,725,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Social Finance Inc | $650,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $585,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $525,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Temple Shir Tikva | $455,100 | 7 | n/a |
| The Bell Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chabad House of Harvard Square Inc | $252,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Bridgespan Group Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sperling Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Sperling Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Sperling Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sperling Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Sperling Family Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,139,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sperling Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Education (25%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Sperling Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($3.5M), Duke University ($2.7M), Social Finance Inc ($650k).
- Does Sperling Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sperling Family Charitable 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 Sperling Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Sperling Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Sperling Family Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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