SAFTY5 Foundation
Lexington, MA · EIN 20-7199304. Reported 149 grants totalling $774,640 to 102 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". SAFTY5 Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
5 of the organizations SAFTY5 Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 9 grants totalling $146,000 to them. That is 24% of the $603,959 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc | federated giving programme | Massachusetts | $114,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | grantmaking organization | California | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc | federated giving programme | Kentucky | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| California Community Foundation | community foundation | California | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
| Jewish Federation Council of Greater La | federated giving programme | California | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $180 and $5,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $50,000.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Vocational Services | Boston, MA | $146,554 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies | Boston, MA | $114,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service | Waltham, MA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jewish Family & Childrens Service | Waltham, MA | $61,150 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Yad Chessed | Waltham, MA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Jewish Family & Children's Services | Waltham, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston Jcrc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Focusing Philanthropy | Santa Monica, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Temple Emunah of Lexington | Lexington, MA | $22,040 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Temple Isaiah of Lexington | Lexington, MA | $17,200 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Itrek | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Jewish National Fund | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation | New York, NY | $7,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Temple Emunuah of Lexington | Lexington, MA | $6,508 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Red Cross | Boone, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chabad of the Bluegrass | Lexington, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky State Treasurer | Frankfort, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Southern Kentucky | Bowling Green, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of West Tennessee | Jackson, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crohns & Colitis Foundation | Needham, MA | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crohns & Colitis Foundation | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $3,493 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Caritas Communities | Braintree, MA | $3,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Haifa Foundation North America Inc | Roslyn, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of Metrowest | Framingham, MA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rise Above Foundation | Northbridge, MA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Cajun Navy Relief | New Orleans, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mercy House of the Southern Tier | Endicott, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute - Pan Mass Challenge | Boston, MA | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Affect Real Change | Monroe, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| African Bridge Network | West Newton, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| America Gives | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blooming Magnolia | Hollywood, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Duvdevan | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Good People Fund | Millburn, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope of the Valley | North Hills, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Linda's Day Farm | Cherry Hill, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Fire Dept Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maui Food Bank | Wailuku, HI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mujeres Unidas Y Activas | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mujeres Unitas Y Activas | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Council of Jewish Women | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rip Medical Debt | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rip Medical Debt | Long Island City, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Maui | Wailuku, HI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| US Friends of Dror Israel | Boca Raton, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District - Robb School Memorial Fd | Uvalde, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Trustees of Reservations | Boston, MA | $705 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA | $560 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence | Waltham, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple Sinai of Sharon | Sharon, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metrowest Women's Fund | Weston, MA | $450 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $360 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Barnstable Police Association | Hyannis, MA | $350 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pan Mass Challenge | Boston, MA | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colon Cancer Coalition | Minneapolis, MN | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Familia Family Memorial Fund | Worcester, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lexington Fire Fighters Association | Lexington, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lexington Firefighters Association | Lexington, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lexington Police Patrolman's Assoc | Lexington, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lexington Police Patrolmans Assoc | Lexington, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mass Bike Coalition | Boston, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Massbike | Boston, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Msp Memorial Foundation | Foxboro, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Paul Tracey Family Fund | Belmont, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mass Audubon Society | Lincoln, MA | $210 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Beantown Baby Diaper Bank | Lexington, MA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope and Comfort | Needham, MA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $180 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Alzheimers Association | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Red Cross | Medford, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Children's Hospital of Boston | Boston, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Nursery School | Lexington, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute - Bridge Project | Boston, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| English at Large | Woburn, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ependymoma Research Foundation | Arlington, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Shepherd Community Care | Newton, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hadassah | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jeff's Place | Framingham, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut | Southbury, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Open Table | Maynard, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple Beth Elohim | Wellesley, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Temple Israel | Portsmouth, NH | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple Kehillath Israel | Brookline, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple Israel | Natick, MA | $70 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Audobon Society | Lincoln, MA | $60 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Parkinson's Disease Foundation | Boston, MA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lexington Food Pantry | Lexington, MA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple Beth Sholom | Cherry Hill, NJ | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple Israel of Natick | Natick, MA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Southern Maine Osher Map Library | Portland, ME | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
23 of 102 (23%) 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 30%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 74 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 36 | $149,938 | $750 |
| 2022 | 26 | $121,865 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | $197,373 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $139,480 | $1,000 |
| 2025 | 27 | $165,984 | $1,000 |
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
76% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts.
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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. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from SAFTY5 Foundation'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: 167 East Emerson Road, Lexington, MA, 02420. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 20-7199304 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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