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Weissman Family Charitable Foundation Attn Laura Davis Trustee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of WEISSMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ATTN LAURA DAVIS TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER CANCER | $76,237 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $75,316 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $20,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $18,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH | $18,000 |
| EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK | $12,500 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL OF GREENSBORO | $3,000 |
| ALPERT JFS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CHABAD OF GREENSBORO | $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 (FY19–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $623k · revenue +132%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +49%- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- DDDIG DEEPone grant, 2023 · $109k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +4%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
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.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 152 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL ROTHBERG SEPT 11TH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds HALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation · George L Ohrstrom Foundation · First Citizens 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 Weissman Family Charitable Foundation Attn Laura Davis Trustee 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Cape Cod Toy Library Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.