· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $282k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Reproductive Rights | $299,744 |
| Boston University School of Law | $100,954 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | $75,863 |
| Sheridan School | $55,203 |
| National Academy of Engineering | $50,343 |
| Squam Lakes Natural Science Center | $32,394 |
| DataKind | $20,523 |
| Planned Parenthood League of Mass | $15,000 |
| Squam Lakes Conservation Society | $15,000 |
| MassBay Community College | $10,000 |
| Boston Childrens Chorus | $7,500 |
| Upstream | $5,000 |
| Preparatory Foundation (Boston Prep) | $5,000 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $3,000 |
| Squam Lakes Association | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69%- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $447k · revenue +22%
- SSSHERIDAN SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $281k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Resproductive Rightsone grant, 2019 · $198k
- LALEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +16%
- NANATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -42%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheridan School and the most unlike its peers is Ivy Baldwin Dance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 54 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 THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DATAKIND INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds SHERRILL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds IVY BALDWIN DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION 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.
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
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 Grossman Family 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.
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sandwich Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.