Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 382 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,917,841 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,715,342). 231 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.7B
Recipients
2,208
Contributions on record
$288M
Donors on record
381
Payments out run 5.9x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared funders
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared funders
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2021 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 107 funders to 190 funders, grant income rose $16M → $47M.
59 of 382 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 382 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
56% of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $124M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 382 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared fundersMA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared fundersFL · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Ploughshares Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- Liberty Mutual Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Highland Street Connection and Subsidiariesshared fundersMA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- Houston Jewish Community Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- United Jewish Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Jewish Community Foundation of San Diegoshared fundersCA · backs 170 organizations that share your funders
- Circle of Service Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 103 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Next Generation Housing Foundation Inc · exempt
- Next Gen 8 Corinne Road Inc · exempt
- Next Gen 17 Melton Road Inc · exempt
- Next Gen 16 Addington Road Inc · exempt
- Paula L and Edwin N Sidman Family Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 382 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,917,841 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,715,342). 231 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc have?
- IRS filings report 382 organizations giving $282,917,841 in grants to Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, 231 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $119,715,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 382funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing