Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Schechter Family Foundation
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.
- $166k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $157k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Schechter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $163k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $229k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $248k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $159k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $194k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $273k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hebrew College | $101,515 | 5 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Elohim | $97,721 | 4 | n/a |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $75,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Childrens Museum | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Institute for Jewish Spirituality Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jewish Community of Greater Stowe | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Schechter Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Schechter Family Foundation
- How much does The Schechter Family Foundation give?
- The Schechter Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $165,540 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Schechter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Religion (20%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Schechter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hebrew College ($102k), Temple Beth Elohim ($98k), Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc ($80k).
- Does The Schechter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Schechter 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 Schechter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Schechter Family Foundation based?
- The Schechter Family Foundation is based in MA.
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