· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $429k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ALBANY PARK THEATER PROJECT | $50,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $50,000 |
| MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| THE POINT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES | $50,000 |
| AFMDA - AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- CCCLI - CLERGY LEADERSHIP INCUBATOR PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 67 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barbara Epstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Epstein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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