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Turkanis 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$121kHuman Services$66kHealth$64kPhilanthropy$19kPublic Benefit$10kEducation$6kInternational$4kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,800
Median grant
4
States reached
$644k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM OF THE NORTH SHORE$20,000
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC$10,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
THE ARTHUR J EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL INC$1,800
PLAY FOR P I N K INC$1,600
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
SPUR INC$500
MERRY MIXERS INC$500
SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND INC$350
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $165 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $125 → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $125 → 6%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $10k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $10k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $9k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $8k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $8k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $8k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $5k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $4k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $3k → 10%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100 → 6%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $1k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $1k → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $500 → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $500 → 10%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $350 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
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DC
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267k · 26 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$267k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +67%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +44%
  • PF
    PLAY FOR PINK INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB MARBLEHEAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +130%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
8
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
9
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
10
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Marblehead Boosters Club Incorporated. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr13%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr20%12%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%76%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
12%
6,946/59,294

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM OF THE NORTH SHORE — $79,620 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM OF THE NORTH SHORETHE ARTHUR J EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL INC — $35,620 · OtherTHE ARTHUR J EPSTEIN HILLEL SCHOOL INCIndividual grant recipient — $10,733 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+19 more — $12,391 · Other+19 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $65,450 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER …+2 more — $515 · Human ServicesBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $30,000 · HealthBoca Raton Region…Children's Hospital Corporation — $5,000 · HealthChildren's Hospit…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $3,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cance…THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $2,500 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI H…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,700 · Health+10 more — $4,560 · Health+10 moreROTARY CLUB MARBLEHEAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyROTARY CLU…Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $9,842 · PhilanthropyCombined J…SPUR INC — $8,035 · PhilanthropySPUR INC+2 more — $750 · PhilanthropyPLAY FOR PINK INC — $12,700 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $225 · Crime & LegalWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationTOWER SCHOOL IN MARBLEHEAD INC — $1,500 · EducationMARBLEHEAD BOOSTERS CLUB INCORPORATED — $1,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $700 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $3,600 · International
Other$138,364Human Services$65,965Health$46,760Philanthropy$28,627Crime & Legal$12,925Education$6,700International$3,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $65,450 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $12,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB MARBLEHEAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $9,842 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR INC — $8,035 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER SCHOOL IN MARBLEHEAD INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMerry Mixers Inc — $1,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL — $1,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARBLEHEAD BOOSTERS CLUB INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CLEFT PALATE - CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARK ON ELM STREET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC — $980 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCLERODERMA FOUNDATIONNEW ENGLAND INC — $950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoy In Childhood Foundation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYOSSET FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $285 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Fallen Officer Foundation — $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Essex County Communit…Arbella Insurance Fou…Salem Five Charitable…American Tower Corpor…Morgan Stanley Global…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Turkanis Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Spur Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Turkanis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Turkanis Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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