· Private foundation
The Barbara Epstein Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $429k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE POINT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ALBANY PARK THEATER PROJECT | $50,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $50,000 |
| AFMDA - AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $50,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $50,000 |
| MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC | $45,000 |
| HANDS ON TZEDAKAH | $38,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $36,000 |
| THE FARMLINK PROJECT | $30,000 |
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, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 21 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- BBBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +65%
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +45%
- APAlbany Park Theater Project8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $26k
- HHHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +37%
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +27%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 67 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 BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Albany Park Theater Project ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HAZON INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAY PFEIFER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc ↗
- Who funds Can Do Multiple Sclerosis ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON TZEDAKAH 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 The Barbara Epstein Foundation Inc 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Boston Foundation for Sight 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.
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