Massachusetts · Nonprofit
REBOOT INC
REBOOT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,649,844 to it, the largest being THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION ($7,193,900). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Reboot Inc does
Mission
Founded in 2002, reboot engages and inspires young, jewishly-unconnected cultural creatives, innovators and thought-leaders who, through their candid and introspective conversations and creativity, generate projects that impact both the jewish and non-jewish worlds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Reboot strategic programs, reboot studio, and marketing and outreach are seed funding pools for project ideas that touch upon: * reinvention of ritual moments; * reinvention of life cycle events; * tools for conversation.
$3,249,524 spent$260,530 earned by the program86% of program spendingNetwork and community engagement: events are part of a programming strategy to invest in the next generation of jews by encouraging them to reconnect to their judaism, by building and nurtuting a broad community grounded in jewish values. Reboot's local goals are to keep the network engaged and connected, as well as to help encourage them to create programs, products and initiatives that will catalyze others outside the network to engage in similar conversations.
$513,333 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,762,857.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $957k to $1.6M (+63%).
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.
94% of REBOOT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
David Katznelson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jessy Tolkan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.3M.
21 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 REBOOT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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.
How concentrated its funding is
REBOOT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 52%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 39% · 2019 55% · 2020 48% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of REBOOT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
REBOOT INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is 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.
Against its field
REBOOT INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like REBOOT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation LLC · disregarded
- Reboot Studio LLC · disregarded
- Rs Fund One LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REBOOT INC?
- REBOOT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,649,844 to it, the largest being THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION ($7,193,900). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REBOOT INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $17,649,844 in grants to REBOOT INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REBOOT INC?
- THE SHIMON BEN JOSEPH FOUNDATION DBA JIM JOSEPH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,193,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REBOOT 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 82 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing