· Private foundation
The Beker 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k69 grants · $224k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $986k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $150,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE BOSTON | $135,000 |
| PRIZMAH | $113,500 |
| KESHET | $98,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $89,500 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $85,090 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $85,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $75,000 |
| METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $68,828 |
| GANN ACADEMY | $56,960 |
| SHALEM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT | $50,000 |
| GRUBSTREET | $50,000 |
| LEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $42,850 |
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 (FY20–24, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Beker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
151 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 32 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSThe Shalem Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $358k · revenue +120%
SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +78%- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $163k · revenue +36%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +39%- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $50k
- BCBOSTON CHARITABLE TRUST FUND CITY OF BOSTON TREASURY DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $50k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
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…
Bais yaakov of boston, the only all girls jewish high school in boston, is a college preparatory school that provides a comprehensive and challenging judaic and secular studies program. it offers orthodox jewish young women an environment…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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,…
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…
To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
How this is measured
161 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. 161 of the 255 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF ↗
- Who funds GRUB STREET INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Frisch School ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YAD CHESSED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds LEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Barr Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Boston After School & Beyond Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Beker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- The Midas Collaborative Inc: 39% of income from government
- Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
- Masscreative Inc: 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc: 15% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
- The Teachers' Lounge Inc: 14% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
- New England Hebrew Academy: 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
- Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc: 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf: 4% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Eliot School: 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- Brighter Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
- Brookline Arts Center: 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Beat the Odds Inc: 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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