Massachusetts · Private foundation
Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family 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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to New Israel Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $121k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $900 | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew College | $23,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc | $19,442 | 3 | 2% |
| Silent Spring Institute Inc | $9,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Join for Justice Inc | $6,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Mount Auburn Hospital | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice | $3,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Shared Interest Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Keshet Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Keshet | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation
- How much does Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation give?
- Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $3,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (29%), Education (26%), Health (18%).
- Who are Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hebrew College ($24k), Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc ($19k), Silent Spring Institute Inc ($9k).
- Does Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family 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 Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation based?
- Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation is based in MA.
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