· Private foundation
The Chasen Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $20,100 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $18,000 |
| NFS LLC | $17,693 |
| HEBREW COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF NATICK | $5,267 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN | $2,207 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| AID FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| SOCIALEXPRESSCOM | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $205 |
| HAZAK | $88 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $25 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $25 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- MJMETROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF3× · 2017–2019 · $82k · revenue -5%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES3× · 2017–2019 · $58k
- HCHEBREW COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- JBJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTONone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +20%
- RDRABBI DISCRETIONARY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $500
- STSURVIVOR TAILS ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -6%
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 organization celebrates the richness of the jewish experience through film and media. throughout the year, the festival engages and inspires the community to explore the full spectrum of jewish life, values and culture.
The academy for jewish religion serves the needs of the jewish people by ordaining rabbis and cantors and training leaders. we affirm our commitment to a vibrant and inclusive jewish pluralism; to an interweaving of sacred texts, critical…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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To provide religious Jewish education.
Advanced jewish education
Education of jewish college students
Religious School
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Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Survivor Tails Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds SURVIVOR TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) 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.
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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 Chasen Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc — 24% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 10% of income from government
- Metrowest Jewish Day School Inc Attn F David Rothkopf — 2% of income from government
- Hebrew College — 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.