· Private foundation
The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k11 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON | $46,450 |
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $31,379 |
| BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $4,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $1,300 |
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $1,113 |
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (AJC) | $1,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| PROJECT ALS | $500 |
| WORCESTER ACADEMY | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON2× · 2017–2018 · $56k · revenue +19%
- BCBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +225%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- CSCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +183%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +20%
- JBJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The bender jcc embraces and welcomes the diversity of our community and encourages everyone to seek meaning and fulfillment by participating in our rich programming inspired by our jewish heritage. we open our doors to everyone, including…
Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.