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The Swartz Shalom Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $71,000 |
| MASS EYE AND EAR | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,515 |
| NORTH SHORE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| SALEM HOSPITAL EMERGENCY | $10,000 |
| LAPPIN FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| SHIRAT HAYAM | $5,400 |
| ST JOHNS PREP | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MARGEN DAVID ADOM | $2,500 |
| NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $2,500 |
| HADASSAH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $2,500 |
| BEHEARD WORLD | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE4× · 2021–2024 · $179k · revenue +34%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +1%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
Lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc) is committed to providing superior health care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and the…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital - needham, inc. (bidn or hospital) is committed to improving the health of the communities served by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect…
Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served and as a network its purpose is to create healthier…
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North American Family Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plummer Youth Promise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds LAPPIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Root Social Justice Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPTIONS WITH LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds BE HEARDWORLD INC ANNA MYER AND DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds North American Family Institute Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Swartz Shalom Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Root Social Justice Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Be Heardworld Inc Anna Myer and Dancers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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