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Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family 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.

$657k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MCivil Rights$673kInternational$454kYouth Development$219kArts & Culture$61kHuman Services$51kHealth$40kReligion$14kEducation$14kOther$1.1M
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $372k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$51,900
Median grant
6
States reached
$609k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NAGEN PROJECT INC$250,000
COUNTRY ROADS FOUNDATION$140,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL CO DENISE SHEPICI$100,000
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND$80,000
MV YOUTH$51,900
JEWISH BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER$10,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$10,000
ISLAND AUTISM$8,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC$6,000
THE ARNOLD P GOLD FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY17–22, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%JUSTADOPT INC: $3k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%JUSTADOPT INC: $3k → 9%JUSTICE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $2k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%JUSTADOPT INC DBA SECOND NURTURE: $3k → 11%JUSTADOPT INC DBA SECOND NURTURE: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 8%ROADS TO SUCCESS: $15k → 17%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

ME
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
MD
DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 47 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$3.2M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+86%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthInternationalReligionOther

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

  • TN
    THE NAGEN PROJECT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +210%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $225k · revenue +89%
  • MY
    MV YOUTH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • J
    JDC
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • FF
    Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +102%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +78%

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
Jewish Teen Initiative of Greater Boston Inc

The jewish teen initiative (jti) is an organization committed to building community among all jewish teens through institutional collaboration, a rich spectrum of innovative programming and participation in national opportunities. jti…

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2
Board of Jewish Education Inc

The organization works to inspire and empower educators and institutions to create transformative jewish learning experiences for children, teens, and families. building on its historic role serving jewish day schools, congregations, and…

Religion
3
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
4
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization

Bbyo is the leading pluralistic teen movement aspiring to involve more jewish teens in more meaningful jewish experiences. rooted in over 100 years of tradition, bbyo has provided exceptional identity enrichment and leadership development…

Youth Development
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
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
7
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
8
Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc

Jewish summer camp is the enduring and irreplaceable connection and community that strengthens jewish identity, develops jewish leadership, and ensures a jewish future. foundation for jewish camp (fjc) is the only nonprofit whose singular…

Youth Development
9
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
10
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
11
Our Generation Speaks Inc

Our mission is to create an entrepreneurial community of leaders to shape a more peaceful israeli-palestinian future built on trust.

Arts & Culture
12
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Country Roads Foundation 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Youth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesSchool Parent OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesCommunity Foundations
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%32%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,516

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

45 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 75 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUNTRY ROADS FOUNDATION INC — $831,350 · PhilanthropyCOUNTRY ROADS FOUNDATION INCPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $80,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INCJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $55,300 · PhilanthropyPRECIOUS PROJECT INC — $42,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $40,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $47,250 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF IDF — $413,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF IDFIndividual grant recipient — $170,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL CO DENISE SHEPICI — $150,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL CO DENIS…TEAM HARMONY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherTEAM HARMONY FOUNDATIONJDC — $51,000 · Other+44 more — $286,650 · Other+44 moreTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $600,000 · Civil RightsTHE NAGEN PROJECT IN…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAG…+1 more — $2,500 · Civil RightsIMPACTISRAEL INC — $225,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $197,600 · InternationalJEWISH NATION…Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $25,000 · InternationalFoundation fo…+1 more — $6,000 · InternationalMV YOUTH INC — $215,904 · Youth Development+1 more — $3,180 · Youth DevelopmentMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC — $41,000 · Arts & CultureROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesROADS TO SUCCESS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSECOND NURTURE — $10,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,500 · Human ServicesJUSTICE HEALTH INTIATIVE INC — $2,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,095,900Other$1,170,650Civil Rights$672,500International$453,600Youth Development$219,084Arts & Culture$61,000Human Services$51,000

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 budgetCOUNTRY ROADS FOUNDATION INC — $831,350 over 7y, 95% of budgetTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $600,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $225,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMV YOUTH INC — $215,904 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $197,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM HARMONY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $55,300 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPRECIOUS PROJECT INC — $42,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC — $41,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld of Change — $35,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION — $31,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROADS TO SUCCESS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND NURTURE — $10,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHAYES SCHOOL PTO — $7,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE TEEN CENTER — $3,180 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE HEALTH INTIATIVE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetV G C FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC — $600 over 2y, 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.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Rachel Kangisser …Allen & Franka Charlu…The Weinstein Family …Glff IncThe Klarman Family Fo…Fiduciary Charitable …American Tower Corpor…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Prospect Fund
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA31.7× affinity14 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 · The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · The Weinstein Family Foundation · Glff Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Prospect Fund

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 Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 75 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.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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