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Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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4
’18
2
’19
3
’20
3
’21
2
’22
3
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$32kEducation$29kHealth$20kInternational$9kPhilanthropy$7kYouth Development$600Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
1
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$2,500
WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH$600
JOIN FOR JUSTICE$300
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH: $600 → 8%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 8 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$73k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+192%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureReligionCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +13%
  • JA
    JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $19k · revenue +229%
  • SS
    SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • J
    JALSA
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE CELEBRATE 2014
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • BT
    BEND THE ARC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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.

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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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2
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
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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4
Jewish Institute for National Security of America

The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…

International
5
Sherit Isroel
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6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
8
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
9
Better Future for Israel

To strengthen israel's future in these areas: 1)providing new immigrants with assistance in a few key areas: representing them as they navigate government ministries and assisting them with their challenges as new immigrants to israel.…

Philanthropy
10
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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11
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
12
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Join for Justice Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEBREW COLLEGE: $23,800 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGEJALSA: $7,500 · OtherJALSAHEBREW COLLEGE CELEBRATE 2014: $5,000 · OtherHEBREW COLLEGE CELEBRATE 20…Individual grant recipient: $4,626 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBEND THE ARC: $4,000 · OtherBEND THE ARCKESHET: $2,500 · OtherKESHETKESHET INC: $2,500 · OtherKESHET INC+1 more: $600 · OtherJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC: $19,442 · Arts & CultureJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR …SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $9,200 · HealthSILENT SPRING…MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $4,000 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN …Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,000 · PhilanthropyCombined J…BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $3,250 · PhilanthropyBEND THE A…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5,700 · InternationalNEW ISRAE…SHARED INTEREST INC: $3,000 · InternationalSHARED IN…JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $6,800 · Religion
Education$23,800Other$26,726Arts & Culture$19,442Health$13,200Philanthropy$10,250International$8,700Religion$6,800

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $23,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC: $19,442 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $9,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $6,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $5,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $3,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARED INTEREST INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKESHET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKESHET: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 IncVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan and Lawrence Bailis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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