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Trust Uwo Herman Dana

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$373k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$3.8MPhilanthropy$3.3MCivil Rights$2.3MHuman Services$790kReligion$634kArts & Culture$445kHealth$122kYouth Development$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $750k
  • $250k+2 grants · $746k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$373,090
HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC$373,090
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$175,000
HEBREW SENIOR LIFE$150,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$150,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON$125,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - IMPACT SE$75,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISREAL FOUNDATION$75,000
BOSTON CENTER FOR JEWISH HERITAGE$35,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$25,000
JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER BOSTON$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES NATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF BOSTON$10,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $125k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $100k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $70k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 31 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
6

Total granted

$11M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+50%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +19%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +46%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • WJ
    WYNER JEWISH HERITAGE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -1%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +50%
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
3
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
5
University of Judaism Foundation
—
6
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
9
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
10
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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12
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,337,500 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,310,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEBIRTHRIGHT ISREAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISREAL FOUNDATIONTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $280,000 · OtherTHE ISRAEL PROJECTPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - IMPACT SE: $275,000 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC - IMPA…JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $225,000 · OtherBOSTON CENTER FOR JEWISH HERITAGE: $205,000 · Other+15 more: $522,250 · Other+15 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $2,749,256 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of…Hebrew Senior Life Inc: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc+1 more: $120,000 · PhilanthropyHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $3,408,549 · InternationalHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIAT…FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $230,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC+4 more: $256,000 · International+4 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $715,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $145,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $25,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $15,000 · HealthHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $25,000 · ReligionJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $5,538 · Education
Other$4,454,750Philanthropy$3,969,256International$3,894,549Human Services$715,000Arts & Culture$285,000Health$40,000Religion$25,000Education$5,538

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $3,408,549 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $2,749,256 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $1,100,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $715,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $280,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $230,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $145,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $140,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $120,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY INC: $76,250 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $62,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $23,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $5,538 over 3y, 0.5% 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 HADASSAH MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Justin & Genevieve Wy…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Communal FundBoston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Trust Uwo Herman Dana funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust Uwo Herman Dana. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Trust Uwo Herman Dana?

Find your warmest path to Trust Uwo Herman Dana through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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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