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The Schechter Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$381kReligion$223kEducation$122kHealth$111kAnimals$90kHousing & Shelter$13kPhilanthropy$9kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $81k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Huntington Theatre$16,000
TANGLEWOOD$15,000
TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM$10,100
Mass General Hospital$10,000
Mass Audubon$10,000
Jfs Of Metrowest$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE$10,000
HEBREW COLLEGE$7,640
Individual grant recipient$6,000
JACOB'S PILLOW$5,500
Mass Art$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Southern Vision Alliance$5,000
WBUR$5,000
Israel Policy Forum Inc$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $13k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Jfs Of Metrowest: $10k → 8%JFS OF METROWEST: $3k → 8%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

VT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$981k · 32 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
39

Total granted

$981k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

53%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HC
    HEBREW COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +13%
  • BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2021–2023 · $76k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • AA
    ARTS Academy Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $28k
  • JC
    Jewish Community of Greater Stowe
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +12%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation

The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…

Arts & Culture
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Boston Baroque Inc

The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.

Arts & Culture
8
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
9
Jewish Arts Collaborative Inc

To explore and present the rich, diverse, and creative world of jewish arts and culture-past, present, and future-to the widest possible audience, in venues across greater boston. through a broad range of programming spanning the…

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10
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
The Theatre At Boston Court

Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Poder. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM: $97,721 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELOHIMINSTITUTE OF JEWISH SPIRITUALITY: $83,179 · OtherINSTITUTE OF JEWISH SPIRITUALITYARTS Academy Foundation: $50,000 · OtherARTS Academy FoundationTANGLEWOOD: $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBON: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · OtherMASS COLLEGE OF ART: $26,000 · OtherBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER GROW CLINIC: $25,000 · Other+53 more: $278,144 · Other+53 moreBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOU…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $75,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holoc…THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $42,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUMHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO I…BOSTON BALLET INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $10,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $17,515 · Arts & Culture+6 moreHEBREW COLLEGE: $101,515 · EducationHEBREW CO…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 · AnimalsINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $25,000 · ReligionJewish Community of Greater Stowe: $25,000 · ReligionCWAYS HOME: $5,000 · ReligionLIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,583 · ReligionBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$744,544Arts & Culture$266,515Education$104,515Animals$60,000Religion$57,583Health$31,000Human Services$12,500

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 budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $101,515 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $75,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $42,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Community of Greater Stowe: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $18,873 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCWAYS HOME: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,583 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTerezin Music Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPODER: $2,500 over 1y, 94% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLOOD CLOT ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community of Greater Stowe ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗

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 Phila…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Schechter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schechter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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