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The Samuel & Tillie D Cheiffetz Foundati

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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1k
Largest
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 2025.

Civil Rights$59kEnvironment$45kHealth$35kCrime & Legal$23kAnimals$23kHousing & Shelter$23kInternational$18kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brady$1,000
Natick Service Council$1,000
Massachusetts Audubon Society$1,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation$1,000
Public Citizen$1,000
Trustees of the Reservation$1,000
RAICES$1,000
Planned Parenthood$1,000
Center for Biological Diversity$600
EarthJustice$600
Environmental Defense Fund$600
Union of Concerned Scientists$600
Alight$500
American Jewish Committee$500
Family Promise Metrowest$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%Pine Street Inn: $500 → 16%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%Pine Street Inn: $500 → 16%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%Pine Street Inn: $500 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $500 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $500 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $500 → 16%MA Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%Somerville Homeles Coalition: $500 → 8%Somerville Homeles Coalition: $500 → 8%Somerville Homeles Coalition: $500 → 8%Reproductive Freedom for All: $1k → 14%Reproductive Freedom for All: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Samuel & Tillie D Cheiffetz Foundati’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 34%.

The Samuel & Tillie D Cheiffetz Foundatilessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$246k · 56 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
7

Total granted

$246k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+122%

Still filing today

71%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BC
    BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +88%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +69%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of MA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $750 · revenue +161%
  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue 0%
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

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.

1
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

Crime & Legal
12
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Morse Institute Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 70 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Planned Parenthood: $13,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodAmerican Civil Liberties Union: $9,250 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties UnionAnti Defamation League: $7,550 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $7,050 · OtherMA Audobon Society: $7,050 · OtherASCPA: $6,500 · OtherWorcester Acadamy Annual Fund: $6,500 · OtherWorld Wildlife Foundation: $6,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherTrustees of the Reservation: $6,000 · OtherUnited Way of MA: $5,000 · OtherHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $6,000 · Other+27 more: $61,750 · Other+27 moreTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $4,600 · InternationalTHE UNION …ALIGHT: $4,500 · InternationalALIGHTREFUGEPOINT INC: $4,000 · InternationalREFUGEPOIN…BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $3,500 · InternationalBOOKS FOR …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 · InternationalMEDECINS S…ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,500 · InternationalISRAEL EME…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,100 · International+2 more: $1,000 · InternationalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,750 · Crime & LegalBRADY CEN…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,050 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN …PRISON BOOK PROGRAM: $4,500 · Crime & LegalPRISON BO…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $7,150 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $5,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $1,000 · Animals+1 more: $300 · AnimalsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $7,550 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $3,100 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $3,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION INC: $750 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil RightsBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $5,550 · HealthRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $4,600 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORK: $3,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $3,000 · HealthEARTHJUSTICE: $7,150 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,150 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Environment
Other$147,700International$23,700Crime & Legal$22,300Animals$17,450Civil Rights$17,400Health$16,650Environment$15,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $7,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $7,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $7,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $7,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $5,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $4,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $4,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON BOOK PROGRAM: $4,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $3,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds PRISON BOOK PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Samuel & Tillie D Cheiffetz Foundati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel & Tillie D Cheiffetz Foundati. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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