Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,517
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $233k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $28k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $21k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $34k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $21k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $18k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $37k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $81,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Isaiah | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth-El Atereth Israel | $6,223 | 6 | n/a |
| Young Israel of Scottsdale Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth El Congregation and Hebrew School | $2,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Chai | $2,525 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $2,517 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildflower Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rofeh Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $81,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Isaiah | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth-El Atereth Israel | $6,223 | 6 | n/a |
| Young Israel of Scottsdale Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beth El Congregation and Hebrew School | $2,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Temple Chai | $2,525 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $2,517 | 1 | n/a |
| Wildflower Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rofeh Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Ask Gemach Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hillel at Ucla | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation give?
- The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $31,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Philanthropy (40%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hebrew Senior Life Inc ($82k), Temple Isaiah ($8k), Congregation Beth-El Atereth Israel ($6k).
- Does The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation based?
- The Joseph Novakoff Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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