· Private foundation
Susan M Deutsch 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| 1ST CHURCH BOSTON | $500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF MA | $500 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $500 |
| MAH FUND | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $500 |
| SHANGHAI SONATAS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $500 |
| LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $500 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM | $250 |
| THE HOMES FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TLTHE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +174%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +82%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- BHBIDMC HEALLTHCARE HEROS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -40%
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
See attached schedule othe conservancy has sole responsibility for managing all aspects of the rose kennedy greenway, including horticulture, programming, public art, maintenance, and capital improvements. we envision a vibrant, inclusive,…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esplanade Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shanghai Sonatas Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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. 63 of the 93 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHANGHAI SONATAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Richard K Lubin Family Foundation · The 1434 Foundation Inc · Alchemy Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
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 M Deutsch 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.
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.