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The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation

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.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
59%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,805
Organizations funded a year
10 to 37
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$189k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$18k23%
FY202337$62k59%
FY202210$5k50%
FY202135$32k51%
FY202034$31kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$40kArts & Culture$40kHealth$28kReligion$25kHuman Services$7kPhilanthropy$4kInternational$2kSocial Science$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
VA
MD
DE
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple Beth Shalom$16,0601n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$7,00020%
Museum of Fine Arts$6,00010%
Newbridge on the charles inc$6,00050%
Trustees of Boston University$5,50020%
Hebron Academy Incorporated$5,00040%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$3,30040%
Hebrew Senior Life Inc$3,01330%
The Trustees of the Smith College$3,00020%
All Newton Music School Inc$2,60030%
New Hampshire Public Radio Inc$2,00040%
Friends of the Dunbar Free Library Inc$1,5001n/a
The Brookings Institution$1,50010%
CaringBridge$1,10030%
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00020%
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc$1,00020%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$92030%
New London Barn Playhouse Inc$90050%
More Than Words Inc$70640%
Vermont Public Radio$50010%
Anti-Defamation League$50010%
Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum$50020%
Classicopia$5001n/a
Marlboro School of Music Inc$50010%
Eastman Charitable Foundation$5002n/a
Eastman Charitable Foundation$41520%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$40020%
From the Top Inc$38020%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$35920%
The Gardner Museum Inc$25010%
Northeastern University$20010%
Roxbury Youthworks Inc$20010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$20010%
Understanding Our Differences Inc$20020%
Vermont Public Co$20010%
Opera North$20020%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$20010%
Touro Synagogue$2001n/a
Columbus Jewish Historical Society$15020%
Temple Israel Incorporated$1031n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$7510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewbridge on the charles inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHebron Academy Incorporated: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $3,013 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAll Newton Music School Inc: $2,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Public Radio Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookings Institution: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew London Barn Playhouse Inc: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMore Than Words Inc: $706 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarlboro School of Music Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastman Charitable Foundation: $415 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFrom the Top Inc: $380 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $359 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gardner Museum Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNortheastern University: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoxbury Youthworks Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnderstanding Our Differences Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Co: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpera North: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Jewish Historical Society: $150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $75 over 1y, 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 35.

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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 IncMA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation

How much does The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation give?
The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $19,085 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (18%).
Who are The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Temple Beth Shalom ($16k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($7k), Museum of Fine Arts ($6k).
Does The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family 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 Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation based?
The Ruth and Frederick Stavis Family Foundation 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 87 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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