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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.

$91k
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
11
Organizations funded FY2018
36%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$46,450
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 36% of the organizations The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201811$59k36%
FY201714$19kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$57kPhilanthropy$35kHealth$7kCivil Rights$3kReligion$1kEnvironment$1kYouth Development$500Education$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston$56,45020%
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center$4,60020%
American Jewish Committee$2,00020%
Temple Israel Incorporated$1,3001n/a
Anti-Defamation League$1,25020%
Jewish Healthcare Center Inc$1,10020%
Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound School Inc$1,0001n/a
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$1,00010%
Jewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association of Greater Boston$1,00010%
Worcester Academy$50010%
Project Als Inc$50010%
Brookline Teen Center$5001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$20020%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Centers of Greater Boston: $56,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBrookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center: $4,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Healthcare Center Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association of Greater Boston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorcester Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Als Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family FoundationMA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust

How much does The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust give?
The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $91,042 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Philanthropy (32%), Health (6%).
Who are The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston ($56k), Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center ($5k), American Jewish Committee ($2k).
Does The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust 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 Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust based?
The Rachel Kangisser Sher and Philip Sher Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 20 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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