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The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$86k
Granted FY2021
29
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

11
’17
10
’18
25
’19
15
’20
17
’21
16
’22
7
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$760kEducation$175kReligion$140kArts & Culture$79kHealth$52kInternational$11kFood & Nutrition$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k26 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$10,000
HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC$10,000
BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION$10,000
COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC$7,500
CITYSTEP ORG INC$5,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$5,000
GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION$5,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC$5,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY - BROWN ANNUAL FUND$3,500
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I$3,000
BOOK HARVEST$2,500
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$2,500
GANN ACADEMY THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER$1,800
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN$1,500
MORIKAMI INC$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $17k → 17%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $1k → 16%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $10k → 17%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $10k → 17%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $1k → 16%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $5k → 17%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $5k → 17%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $1k → 12%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $5k → 17%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $5k → 17%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $500 → 16%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $500 → 16%CITYSTEP ORG INC: $3k → 17%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $500 → 16%BOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $500 → 16%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $500 → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$351k · 26 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$351k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+21%

Still filing today

81%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CITYSTEP ORG INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +278%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +99%
  • HF
    HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $38k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARTHUR J EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +88%
  • I
    IKAR
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Wheaton College

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…

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
11
The Baruch College Fund

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.

Education
12
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $735,699 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc+5 more: $25,500 · PhilanthropyHEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC: $49,532 · OtherHEVREH OF SOU…THE ARTHUR J EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE ARTHUR J …CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM OF THE NORTH SHORE: $11,000 · OtherCONGREGATION …IKAR: $10,000 · OtherIKARBNAI TORAH CONGREGATION: $10,000 · OtherBNAI TORAH CO…HILLEL COUNCIL OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $6,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $6,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherEPIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+13 more: $25,200 · Other+13 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $43,000 · EducationPresident…SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationSIMMONS U…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $11,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …BOOK HARVEST: $8,000 · EducationBOOK HARV…ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc: $4,600 · Education+7 more: $7,300 · Education+7 moreVIA ART FUND INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCITYSTEP ORG INC: $59,300 · Human ServicesBOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $4,300 · Health+1 more: $600 · HealthHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $38,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$761,199Other$143,732Education$98,900Arts & Culture$74,000Human Services$65,300Health$44,900Religion$38,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $735,699 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCITYSTEP ORG INC: $59,300 over 7y, 15% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $43,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL COUNCIL OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEPIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc: $4,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $4,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALADDIN PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morikami Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUsher 1F Collaborative Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Communal FundBerkshire Taconic Com…The Feigenbaum Founda…Boston Foundation IncJane and Jack Fitzpat…Donald C McGraw Found…Berkshire Bank Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…American Endowment Fo…The Velmans Foundatio…The Greater Barringto…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA29.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Carl and Toby Sloane Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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