A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE GERALD AND JUDITH FELDMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $41k
$10k–50k6 grants · $141k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHELSEA JEWISH LIFECARE	$80,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES-ANNUAL DONATION	$40,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$25,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER	$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE	$21,000
PAMENT AIRLIF SERVICES-SKYHOPE	$20,000
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR - THE BUSABA FUND	$10,000
SHALOH HOUSE	$8,700
THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND	$5,800
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE	$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$5,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF NEEDHAM	$2,500
NEEDHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$2,500
ALL NEWTON MUSIC SCHOOL	$2,500
CANTON AREA HELPLINE	$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.8M · 41 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+52%

Still filing today

61%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

CJ
CHELSEA JEWISH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $280k · revenue +38%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +20%
PA
PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +126%

Funded once

JP
JASHREE PATEL FUND - BIDMC
one grant, 2018 · $20k
BC
BOURNE CONSERVATION TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +276%
GB
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Jgs Lifecare Corporation

Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.

Health

Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Inc

The organization's mission is to provide individuals throughout the greater boston area with the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living services without regard to ability to pay. the goal is to ensure both…

Health

Jgs Administrative Services Inc

To provide administrative support to jgs lifecare corporation.

Health

Hebrew Seniorlife Hospice Care Inc

The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…

Human Services

Chelsea Jewish North Shore Assisted Living Inc

To enrich the life of each of our residents and program participants so that each may continue to live his or her life with a sense of meaning and purpose. we provide assisted living units for our tenants.

Housing & Shelter

Jewish Healthcare Center Inc

The center owns and operates a 141 bed skilled nursing facility that provides inpatient long-term care and recuperative services for its patients.

Health

Chelsea Jewish Community Inc

The organization's mission is to provide the highest level of home health and hospice care services without regard of an individual's ability to pay.

Health

Jewish Nursing Home of Western Massachusetts Inc

To care for the frail, elderly and infirmed according to jewish traditions.

Human Services

Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Chelsea Jewish Green House Inc

The organization's mission is to provide individuals and families throughout the greater boston area with the highest level of skilled nursing and rehabilitation, and assisted living care without regard to ability to pay. the goal is to…

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pets Return Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/38

the rest of the field

11%

4,714/42,320

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

26/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,199,860Health$481,455Philanthropy$167,300Human Services$132,700Education$44,000Arts & Culture$29,475Environment$5,700

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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Gerald and Judith Feldman Charitable 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Gerald and Judith Feldman Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gerald and Judith Feldman Charitable 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines