· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- STSURVIVOR TAILS ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -6%
- CFCANTORS FINE ARTS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $500
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 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.
To explore and present the rich, diverse, and creative world of jewish arts and culture-past, present, and future-to the widest possible audience, in venues across greater boston. through a broad range of programming spanning the…
To provide religious Jewish education.
Advanced jewish education
Education of jewish college students
Religious School
Jewish education in media's educational efforts are disseminated via television, electronic media, the internet and other teaching tools and methods. jewish education in media's primary effort is the jewish broadcasting service (jbs), a…
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 METROWEST JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ATTN F DAVID ROTHKOPF ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chasen Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chasen Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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