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The Nirenberg Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Nirenberg Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$265k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

96% of The Nirenberg Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
2
’18
3
’19
2
’20
2
’21
2
’22
2
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1000kReligion$189kEducation$185kHealth$141kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$13kYouth Development$10kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $250k+1 grant · $254k
$253,936
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$253,936
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$10,827
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CAMP RAMAH: $9k → 7%HILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE- UMASS: $16k → 12%THE BOSTON FOUNDATION: $254k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $101k → 17%MASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM: $4k → 17%US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 14%JOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%HILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE-UMASS: $16k → 12%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $11k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $100k → 17%JOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%HILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE-UMASS: $16k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $100k → 17%HILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE-UMASS: $16k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $100k → 17%HILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE-UMASS: $7k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $90k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $75k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $75k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $25k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $20k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $20k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $20k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $20k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 17%SANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $20k → 17%JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $20k → 17%JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $20k → 17%JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $20k → 17%JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $20k → 17%JEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $20k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $20k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $15k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $15k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $15k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $15k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $15k → 17%YESHIVA ACADEMY: $10k → 17%CAMP RAMAH: $5k → 17%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$1.3M
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+45%

Still filing today

25%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TS
    THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +42%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    7× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +25%
  • JM
    JOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +45%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASS: $640,600 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASSJEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICES: $120,000 · OtherJEWISH GERIATRIC SERVICESYESHIVA ACADEMY: $105,000 · OtherYESHIVA ACADEMYTEMPLE BETH EL: $104,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELSANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTER: $80,000 · OtherSANDI KUPPERMAN LEARNING CENTERHILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE-UMASS: $70,500 · OtherHILLEL - THE FUND OF JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE-UMASS+3 more: $43,900 · OtherBoston Foundation Inc: $253,936 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES I…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,827 · HealthJOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,600 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,164,500Philanthropy$358,936Health$20,827Arts & Culture$12,600Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $253,936 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,827 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nirenberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nirenberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Johnson Memorial Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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