How much does The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts give?

The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts reported 32 itemized grants totaling $1,229,250, out of $1,265,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Science & Tech (12%), Health (11%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Who are The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center ($1.3M), Solomon Schechter Day School Inc ($217k), Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc ($200k).

Does The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts based?

The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts is based in NY.

The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts

The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts at a glance

· Private foundation

The Dibner Charitable Trust of Massachusetts

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.

$1.3M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$1.2MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$402kInternational$390kPhilanthropy$360kFood & Nutrition$285kEducation$201kHuman Services$55kOther$0

02FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 32 grants below total $1,229,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,265,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k7 grants · $26k
$10k–50k16 grants · $253k
$50k–250k9 grants · $950k

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
American Technion Society	$200,000
American Friends of Rambam Medical Center	$150,000
American Friends of Rambam Medical Center	$150,000
American Technion Society	$150,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$70,000
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston	$70,000
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	$60,000
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston	$50,000
Project Bread	$50,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$25,000
Solomon Schechter Day School	$25,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$25,000
American Friends of Leket Israel	$20,000
Solomon Schechter Day School	$20,000
Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans Inc	$20,000

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 26 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%

+2%

Still filing today

65%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther

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

PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC
5× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +188%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
5× · 2018–2023 · $185k · revenue +206%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
4× · 2018–2023 · $165k · revenue +123%

Funded once

AF
American Friends of Rambam Medical Center
one grant, 2020 · $100k
PB
Project Bread
one grant, 2020 · $50k
MS
Mystic Seaport Museum
one grant, 2020 · $15k

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.

03Its 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.

Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Sherit Isroel

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

The society is a multidisciplinary professional medical organization dedicated to improving human health by advancing nuclear medicine, molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

25/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$2,680,000Other$1,521,750Health$228,000Food & Nutrition$200,000Arts & Culture$193,700Philanthropy$120,000Education$14,000

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.

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 Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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