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The Koffler Bornstein Family Foundation at a glance

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The Koffler Bornstein Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$474k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$630kPhilanthropy$594kEducation$287kArts & Culture$267kHuman Services$163kReligion$149kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
$1,980
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIRIAM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$204,100
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$90,100
JEWISH ALLIANCE OF RI$44,400
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$25,270
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$25,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH$11,000
WE ARE FAMILYFOTI'S CHARITY$10,000
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$5,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$3,500
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF RI$2,000
PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL$1,980
KRAVIS CENTER$1,705
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 (FY20–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ACCESS POINT RI: $2k → 14%ACCESS POINT RI: $1k → 14%JEWISH ADOPTION & FAMILY CARE OPTIONS: $136 → 13%ACCESS POINT RI: $1k → 14%ACCESS POINT RI: $1k → 14%ACCESS POINT RI: $1k → 14%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $33k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MO
SC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Koffler Bornstein Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in RI; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Koffler Bornstein Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 47 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
24

Total granted

$1.7M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+34%

Still filing today

62%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $285k · revenue +95%
  • TM
    The Miriam Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +439%
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RI HILLEL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND RABBINICAL COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +28%
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
Lifespan Foundation Brown University Health Foundation

BUHF operates exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health. (see Sched.O)

Health
2
Newport Hospital Foundation

NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)

Health
3
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
4
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
5
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…

Health
6
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
7
Rhode Island Hospital Foundation

To be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health and its affiliates.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc

The bristol hospital development foundation is dedicated to the financial support of bristol hospital and health care group through implementation and enhancement of hospital and affiliate-based development and community relations…

Health
11
Lifespan Corporation

Delivering health with care.

Health
12
Brown Emergency Medicine Inc

To provide exceptional emergency medical care, education, research, and service to the people of rhode island and beyond.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hoja Nueva. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
35/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH ALLIANCE OF RI: $266,018 · OtherJEWISH ALLIANCE OF RITEMPLE EMANU-EL: $135,830 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELRHODE ISLAND HOLOCAUSE EDUCATION & RESOURCE CENTER: $120,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND HOLOCAUSE EDUCATION & RESOURCE…UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH: $65,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF PALM BEACHMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $63,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $60,000 · OtherThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation I…+39 more: $119,928 · Other+39 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $285,100 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute …The Miriam Hospital Foundation: $227,200 · HealthThe Miriam Hospital Foundatio…PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $30,000 · HealthPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC+7 more: $12,850 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $235,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY: $178,500 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNI…+2 more: $350 · Community ImprovementMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $142,500 · Human ServicesACCESSPOINT RI: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $136 · Human ServicesRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $64,205 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $61,800 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $5,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $41,180 · EducationTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationCLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $9,000 · EducationBERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $3,500 · Education+2 more: $2,500 · Education
Other$829,776Health$555,150Philanthropy$237,100Community Improvement$178,850Human Services$148,636Arts & Culture$135,505Education$77,180

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $285,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $235,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $227,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $178,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $142,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $64,205 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $61,800 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $41,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $14,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $11,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $9,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetACCESSPOINT RI: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBradley Hospital Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA WISH COME TRUE INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Hoja Nueva: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Montessori: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKSTONE PARKS CONSERVANCY: $750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRIAM HOSPITAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN PALM BEACH SECTION: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $136 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds ACCESSPOINT RI ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI ↗
  • Who funds Bradley Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds A WISH COME TRUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Hoja Nueva ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Amica Companies Found…United Way of Rhode I…Warren Alpert Foundat…Gertrude N & Seebert …Eugene P Schwartz Fam…Joan and Leonard Engl…Jewish Federation Fou…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…The Champlin Foundati…The Jerrold & Diane S…Winstead Charitable F…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Warren Alpert Foundation · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · Eugene P Schwartz Family Foundation · Joan and Leonard Engle Family Foundation · Jewish Federation Foundation of Greater Rhode Island · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · The Champlin Foundation · The Jerrold & Diane Salmanson Foundation · Winstead Charitable Foundation Tr

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 Koffler Bornstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Koffler Bornstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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