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The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
215
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.6MFood & Nutrition$1.3MEducation$916kEnvironment$691kInternational$616kCommunity Improvement$240kReligion$157kArts & Culture$119kOther$0
02FY2024 · 215 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k206 grants · $291k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $279k
  • $250k+2 grants · $695k
$1,683
Median grant
5
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$400,000
NORTHEAST SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION$294,940
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$114,239
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY$104,733
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$60,000
TRINITY HEALTH OF NEW ENGLAND CORPORATION INC$25,000
BAY PATH COLLEGE$20,000
JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES$18,500
THE BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$9,736
DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$7,500
HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE$5,336
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$4,233
THE ARNOLD P GOLD FOUNDATION$3,763
VIBESMANS LLC$2,700
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FUND FOR THE AGED INC: $12k → 17%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

VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 233 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

233 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2024, 150 since wound down; 128 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

233
1465

Total granted

$6.3M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+16%

Still filing today

10%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • NS
    Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $645k · revenue +35%
  • BM
    BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $279k · revenue +53%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $259k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • BH
    BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -65%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -9%
  • AI
    AFSNC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +70%
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
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
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
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
5
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
6
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
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
9
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
10
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
11
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cambodian Medical Clinic Foundation 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

64 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. 64 of the 1,830 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
47/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,099,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $860,085 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALJEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $348,768 · OtherJEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICESMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES: $200,000 · Other+165 more: $1,448,665 · Other+165 moreMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $366,603 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS …BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $278,750 · HealthBAYSTATE MEDIC…BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthBAYSTATE HEALT…+3 more: $56,602 · Health+3 moreNortheast Sustainable Energy Association Inc: $644,940 · EnvironmentNortheast S…Appalachian Mountain Club: $39,210 · EnvironmentAppalachian…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $258,877 · InternationalWASHINGTON…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $100,000 · InternationalThe Americ…FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · InternationalFOLLOW YOU…AFSNC INC: $50,000 · InternationalAFSNC INC+2 more: $17,500 · InternationalHEBREW AT THE CENTER INC: $175,000 · EducationHEBREW AT…WHEATON COLLEGE: $79,392 · EducationWHEATON C…MARLBORO COLLEGE: $75,695 · EducationMARLBORO …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $55,743 · EducationPresident…NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationNEW ENGLA…RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationRIVERVIEW…JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $39,600 · Education+3 moreSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropySHALOM LEARNING INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,956,518Health$901,955Environment$684,150International$606,377Education$545,430Recreation & Sports$85,000Philanthropy$65,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNortheast Sustainable Energy Association Inc: $644,940 over 4y, 14% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $366,603 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $278,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $258,877 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEBREW AT THE CENTER INC: $175,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $79,392 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARLBORO COLLEGE: $75,695 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $55,743 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAFSNC INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $39,210 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Bionics Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $26,602 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $25,672 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH OF NEW ENGLAND CORPORATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBay Path University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $14,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP BAUERCREST INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFUND FOR THE AGED INC: $11,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM LEARNING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust Roots Inc: $8,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,454 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Allergy Science Initiative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $4,950 over 3y, 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 Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
  • Who funds BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW AT THE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MARLBORO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds AFSNC INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds Bridging Bionics Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY HEALTH OF NEW ENGLAND CORPORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRAVELING PRESS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…The Beveridge Family …Jewish Communal FundCommunity Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…Boston Foundation IncSteven K and Winifred…The Feigenbaum Founda…Berkshire Taconic Com…Jewish Federation of …Ruderman Family Found…The Shimon Ben Joseph…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA29.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Boston Foundation Inc · Steven K and Winifred a Grinspoon Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts Inc · Ruderman Family Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph 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 Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Servicenet Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Berkshire Grown Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Just Roots Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Springfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bay Path University: 3% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chester Theatre Company Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hancock Shaker Village Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nuestras Raices Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Riverview School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Harold Grinspoon 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.

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 1830 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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