· Private foundation
The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Combined Jewish Philanthropies Of Greater Boston Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $86k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k26 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION | $10,000 |
| HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC | $7,500 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| CITYSTEP ORG INC | $5,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $5,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY - BROWN ANNUAL FUND | $3,500 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I | $3,000 |
| HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $2,500 |
| BOOK HARVEST | $2,500 |
| GANN ACADEMY THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER | $1,800 |
| RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | $1,500 |
| MORIKAMI INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COCITYSTEP ORG INC7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +278%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +82%
- HFHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC5× · 2018–2023 · $38k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- TATHE ARTHUR J EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL INCone grant, 2019 · $15k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +88%
- IIKARone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education and Research
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citystep Org Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 55 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYSTEP ORG INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIA ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds HILLEL COUNCIL OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EPIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Network of South Berkshire Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALADDIN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds The Morikami Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER 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 · Jewish Communal Fund · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Velmans Foundation Inc · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation
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 Carl and Toby Sloane Family 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Stockbridge Library Association — 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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