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The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$702k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$299,744
Organizations funded a year
23 to 30
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$16M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsScience & TechEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$701k18%
FY202324$374k13%
FY202223$399k17%
FY202125$446k8%
FY202025$464k32%
FY201930$490kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.3MEducation$858kArts & Culture$516kEnvironment$242kScience & Tech$183kHealth$63kPublic Benefit$15kAnimals$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $1,150,016 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $447,213 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSheridan School: $280,658 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSquam Lakes Conservation Society: $118,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSquam Lakes Natural Science Center: $108,094 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $100,954 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDatakind Inc: $92,599 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetShady Hill School: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Children's Chorus Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPreparatory Foundation Inc: $24,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSquam Lakes Association: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Arts and Crafts Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNational Academy of Engineering Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilton Academy: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoon Preservation Committee: $8,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst College Trustees: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCastle Preservation Society: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited South End Settlements: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSherrill House Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRogerson Communities Inc: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHandel and Haydn Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIvy Baldwin Dance Inc: $900 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIpas: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Law Foundation Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandwich Childrens Center: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSandwich Historical Society Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Max Warburg Courage Curriculum Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommonwealth Corporation Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSandwich Home Industries Inc: $250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Country Club Employee Education Fund Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDementia Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA34.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Robert Earll McConnell Fnd - Cash · Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn · The Scotto Laporte Charitable Foundation · Mathieson Family Foundation · The Beach Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica 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.

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About The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $701,824 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (42%), Education (26%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($1.2M), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($447k), Sheridan School ($281k).
Does The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation 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 Grossman Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation.
Where is The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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