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Philip and Bernice Krupp Foundation for

Boston, MA · EIN 26-3951290. Reported 58 grants totalling $7,366,088 to 25 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$100,000median grant
$7,366,088granted, 2021-2025
25recipients, as named on its returns
82%of grantees funded again the next year
$13.8Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Philip and Bernice Krupp Foundation for did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $100,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
19 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 and Up
31 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
American Friends of Hand in Hand Haifa Endowment MatchPortland, OR$1,000,000112025
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater BostonNewton Centre, MA$1,000,000112025
The Vilna Shul Boston's Center for Jewish Culture IncBoston, MA$1,000,000112025
Jewish Community Ctr of Greater BostonNewton, MA$600,000112025
Social Good FundRichmond, CA$326,088332025
Anti-Defamation LeagueBoston, MA$300,000332025
Jewish Studio ProjectBerkely, CA$300,000332025
New Israel Fund - Emergency Safety Net - for Emergencsy Safety NetPhiladelphia, PA$300,000332025
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab EducationPortland, OR$275,000442024
Jews United for Justice IncBaltimore, MD$275,000442025
Bend the Arc Jewish Action IncNew York, NY$260,000552025
Chabad Lubavitch of Chestnut Hill IncChestnut Hill, MA$250,000112025
American Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteeNew York, NY$200,000222024
T'ruahNew York, NY$200,000222025
Vilna ShulBoston, MA$200,000222025
American Friends of Neve Shalom-Wahat Al-SalamGlendale, CA$175,000552025
Meet International IncBoston, MA$175,000552025
American Friends of Hand in HandPortland, OR$100,000112025
American Friends of Magen David AdomNew York, NY$100,000112023
KeshetNewton Centre, MA$100,000222025
Hebrew CollegeNewton Centre, MA$80,000332023
Adam Theater IncBoston, MA$50,000112024
Seeds of Peace International CampNew York, NY$50,000222022
Middle East Entrepreneurs of TomorrowBoston, MA$25,000112023
Oasis of Peace American Friends of Neve Shalomwahat Al SalamGlendale, CA$25,000112023

15 of 25 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 82%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

International Affairs
15 grants
Education
6 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
5 grants
Religion
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20216$135,000$25,000
20227$175,000$25,000
202314$913,696$65,000
202414$1,233,696$100,000
202517$4,908,696$100,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

51% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Massachusetts
$3.8M
Oregon
$1.4M
California
$826K
New York
$810K
Pennsylvania
$300K
Maryland
$275K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust7 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $100,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Philip and Bernice Krupp Foundation for's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: One Beacon Street 21200, Boston, MA, 02108. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 26-3951290 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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