We are thrilled to share that The Genesis Foundation for Children has earned Charity Navigator’s highest possible rating—Four Stars.
Charity Navigator evaluates more than 245,000 nonprofits to help individual donors, charitable foundations, and businesses by providing an independent assessment of a nonprofit’s health in various categories, such as Accountability & Finance; Impact & Measurement; Leadership & Planning; and Culture & Compensation. Earning a Four-Star rating is a significant achievement, and we are incredibly proud that our commitment to transparency, integrity, and thoughtful stewardship has been recognized.
This distinction also opens new doors for the Foundation. Many grantmakers and corporate partners consider supporting organizations with only a Four-Star Charity Navigator rating, allowing us to reach even more children and families who need our help.
While we’re honored by this recognition, what makes it especially meaningful is what it represents: the lives that have been changed because of your support.
Through the Dr. Murray Feingold Coordinated Care Service at Mass General Brigham for Children, families facing the challenges of a rare disease receive more than excellent medical care – they receive guidance, advocacy, and a team dedicated to eliminating some of their burdens so they can focus on their children.
Parents of children with rare diseases often find themselves juggling appointments with multiple specialists, traveling long distances for care, navigating complicated diagnoses, and worrying about treatments that may not be covered by insurance. Our coordinated care model brings specialists together, consolidates multiple appointments whenever possible, accelerates genetic testing and diagnoses, helps families stay on track with treatment plans, and ensures children receive the support they need at both home and school.
The impact continues to grow:
- We have expanded coordinated care from approximately 1,000 patients each year to 3,000, with the goal of serving all 5,000+ Medical Genetics patients annually.
- Foundation funding for the Coordinated Care Service has increased by more than 35% to meet the growing need.
- While many families spend five to seven years searching for an accurate diagnosis, children entering our coordinated care program often receive answers in well under one year.
- Appointment wait times have been significantly reduced, with urgent patients often being seen within one to two weeks—or even the next day when medically necessary.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable facts is that all of this coordinated care is provided at an average cost of just $175 per patient, per year. It’s a powerful reminder that thoughtful, efficient care can have an extraordinary impact.
While we are extremely proud of the work we do, we are always mindful of and grateful to you, our supporters, whose generosity and loyalty enable us to carry forward the legacy of our founder, Dr. Murray Feingold. It was his vision, his dedication to his patients, and his philanthropic work that drove him to pioneer “coordinated care” that has no equal in today’s medical community of rare diseases.
And to our champions who believe in what we do and care deeply about the people who turn to us for help, we wish to express our gratitude to each and every one of you. Thank you for supporting us, believing in us and our mission, and being wonderful ambassadors for what we do and whom we serve.
With gratitude,
Matthew Hoffman