· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $547k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - SPERLING FAMILY EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PRO | $500,000 |
| TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA | $100,000 |
| BROAD INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL FINANCE | $100,000 |
| TEMPLE SHIR TIKVA | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $72,000 |
| ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE DBA STANDWITHUS | $21,000 |
| CHABAD OF PUERTO RICO | $18,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN BOSTON | $18,000 |
| BOCH CENTER (THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC) | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF CHARLESTON | $7,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +51%
Social Finance Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +748%- TBThe Broad Institute Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $585k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- DUDuke Uiversity Librarieone grant, 2017 · $175k
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +3%
- TBTHE BROAD INSTITUTE INC - SPERLING FAMILY FELLOWSHIP IN PRECISION HEALTHCARone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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.…
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIA ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sperling Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sperling Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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