· Private foundation
The Honorable Jeffrey a Abber 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,663 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,031 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $750 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MALDEN | $258 |
| LT SCOTT F MILLEY RANGER FOUNDATION | $257 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $512) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +97%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +6%- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL3× · 2019–2024 · $4k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERISTY OF NEW HAMPSHIREone grant, 2022 · $1k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERSTone grant, 2021 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
To provide the diabetes research institute with the funding to cure diabetes now.
See schedule ocri is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cancer immunotherapy through scientific discovery and global collaboration. since 1953, cri has funded research that deepens understanding of the immune system and its…
The mission of the Scleroderma Research Foundation is to fund and facilitate the most promising, highest quality research aimed at new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.
To provide initial research funding to brilliant, investigative scientists with new ideas to cure arthritis and related autoimmune diseases.
The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
To eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds LT SCOTT F MILLEY RANGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Honorable Jeffrey a Abber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Honorable Jeffrey a Abber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Honorable Jeffrey a Abber’s filings →