· Private foundation
The Nesher Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| JCC OF GREATER BOSTON | $10,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $10,000 |
| ELLIE FUND | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK | $5,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| NEEDHAM OBSERVER | $999 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($85k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($10k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($10k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +3% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue -1%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue 0%- JOJCC OF GREATER BOSTON2× · 2024–2025 · $13k
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -17%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NEEDHAM PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +2%
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.
The Needham Historical Society (d/b/a Needham History Center & Museum) is a local non-profit whose mission is to engage and educate the community about the history of the town and its people, and to preserve the treasures of Needham's…
The mission of the jewish journal is to educate, inform, engage and connect the jewish community north of boston and beyond.
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
See schedule ojewish news service, inc. ("jns") was organized as a non-profit corporation under the general laws of massachusetts and is an independent business resource and syndication service covering jewish news and israel news for…
The mission of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. is the following: * To sustain and enrich the quality of Jewish life in the Greater Boston Jewish community by creating and enhancing a sense of common purpose. * To…
The jewish alliance for law and social action (jalsa), a massachusetts-based social justice organization, puts our jewish values into action by engaging the community in promoting civil rights and protecting civil liberties, and…
The organization provides public, educational and governmental programming through the needham channel for cable television subscribers in the town of needham, massachusetts.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The library foundation of needham encourages community investments through individual and corporate giving for library foundation programs and services not provided for in the town funded budget and coordinates fundraising and promotional…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM OBSERVER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEEDHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nesher Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nesher Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc: 2% of income from government
- Minute Man National Park Assoc Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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