· Private foundation
Ziffrin Abbott 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND INC | $10,000 |
| OPEN TABLE INC | $2,500 |
| F L A G FLAG FOOTBALL INC | $2,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS LOTTE E SCHARFMAN MEMORIAL | $2,000 |
| MASSCREATIVE INC | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $1,250 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $1,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $1,000 |
| TRANSITMATTERS INC | $900 |
| IBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC | $600 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $550 |
| DIGNITY MATTERS INC | $500 |
| MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OTOPEN TABLE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +58%
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +45%
Dignity Matters Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- PSPER SCHOLAS INCone grant, 2023 · $400 · revenue -16%
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.
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds F L A G FLAG FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSCREATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds IBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS 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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ziffrin Abbott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ziffrin Abbott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Making Opportunity Count Inc: 28% of income from government
- Masscreative Inc: 26% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Ibis Reproductive Health Inc: 9% of income from government
- Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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