· Private foundation
Ancona Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $15,000 |
| Amherst Fund | $5,200 |
| Univ of Chicago Booth School of Bus | $5,000 |
| Nantucket Cottage Hospital | $5,000 |
| York College Foundation | $5,000 |
| London School of Economics | $4,000 |
| Greenwich Academy | $1,650 |
| Nantucket Preservation Trust | $1,500 |
| Nantucket Atheneum | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Nantucket Food Fuel Rental Assistan | $1,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $1,000 |
| Nantucket Historical Association | $750 |
| Nantucket Dreamland Foundation | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +25%
University of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +56%- NPNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- AAAmherst Annual Fundone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TSThe Society for The Relief of Womenone grant, 2017 · $700
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Forest Police Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NANTUCKET PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHBROOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ancona Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.