How much does The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation give?

The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $50,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc ($18k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($15k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($12k).

Does The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.

The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation

The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation

Q: What does The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), International (16%), Health (15%).

Q: Where is The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation based?

The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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.

$51k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$83kInternational$61kHealth$58kReligion$39kEducation$35kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $23k
$10k–50k1 grant · $28k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$676k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AGGREGATE DONATION UNDER 3000	$27,500
CHABADORG	$8,000
GEDER AVOS JEWISH HERITAGE GROUP IN	$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL	$3,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES	$3,000
JEWISH PRE SCHOOL	$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF	$3,000

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$336k · 53 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$336k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+58%

Still filing today

55%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +174%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +53%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +206%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $3k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $3k
BE
BELEV ECHAD INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +232%

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.

Sherit Isroel

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Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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The Jerusalem Connection

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Love for Life Foundation. 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

36 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. 36 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

33/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$220,350International$86,200Philanthropy$23,200Human Services$16,500Religion$14,100Health$13,700Arts & Culture$3,550

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.

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 Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA15.1× affinity5 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melvin & Beatrice Fraiman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home