· Private foundation
Tapper 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMT THEATER | $793,580 |
| CITY LORE INC | $367,500 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TAMARACK CAMPS | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST | $15,000 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW & SOCIAL ACTION | $15,000 |
| HARTFORD PROMISE | $15,000 |
| THE DEBORAH PROJECT | $12,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS | $10,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
75 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% 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
- CLCITY LORE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +6%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +24%- CSCapitol Squash Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- WCWEILL CORNELL MEDICINEone grant, 2020 · $133k
- UMUMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $38k
- TGTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +349%
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 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…
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 180 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 AMT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY LORE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FANS FOR THE CURE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tapper Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tapper Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Inc: 85% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation: 77% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- She Leads Justice Inc: 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc: 15% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc: 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc: 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- Knox Inc: 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
- Miracle League of Connecticut Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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