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The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $282k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Squam Lakes Conservation Society$15,000
Planned Parenthood League of Mass$15,000
MassBay Community College$10,000
Boston Childrens Chorus$7,500
Preparatory Foundation (Boston Prep)$5,000
Upstream$5,000
Museum of Fine Arts$3,000
Squam Lakes Association$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sandwich Childrens Center: $100 → 9%Sandwich Children's Center: $100 → 9%Sandwich Children's Center: $100 → 9%Sandwich Children's Center: $100 → 9%United South End Settlements: $900 → 16%United South End Settlements: $800 → 16%United South End Settlements: $600 → 16%United South End Settlements (Camp Hale): $600 → 16%United South End Settlements: $600 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $250 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $200 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $200 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $200 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $200 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $200 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 33 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-16%

Still filing today

79%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $447k · revenue +22%
  • SS
    SHERIDAN SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $281k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CF
    Center for Resproductive Rights
    one grant, 2019 · $198k
  • LA
    LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -42%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
Wheaton College

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…

Education
9
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
10
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheridan School; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,150,016 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC+1 more: $200 · Civil RightsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $355,417 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…SHERIDAN SCHOOL: $280,658 · EducationSHERIDAN SCHOOLSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $47,500 · EducationSHADY HILL SCHOOL+5 more: $29,500 · EducationBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $447,213 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY O…BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CHILDREN'S…+5 more: $23,300 · Arts & CultureCenter for Resproductive Rights: $198,173 · OtherCenter for Respro…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,954 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTO…National Academy of Engineering: $80,343 · OtherNational Academy …Planned Parenthood League of Mass: $47,500 · OtherPlanned Parenthoo…+21 more: $63,150 · Other+21 moreSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $118,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $108,094 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Environment+2 more: $8,850 · EnvironmentDATAKIND INC: $92,599 · PhilanthropyPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,300 · PhilanthropyUpstream USA Inc: $13,000 · HealthSHERRILL HOUSE INC: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Civil Rights$1,150,216Education$713,075Arts & Culture$505,513Other$490,120Environment$249,944Philanthropy$118,399Health$14,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $355,417 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $12,000 over 1y, 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 budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 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
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 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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds IVY BALDWIN DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds IPAS ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION 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.

Boston Foundation IncLovett-Woodsum Founda…Fidelity FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…New Hampshire Charita…The Schifrin Foundati…Robert Earll McConnel…Edmund & Betsy Cabot …The Scotto Laporte Ch…Mathieson Family Foun…The Beach FoundationThe Pamela and Lauren…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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