· Private foundation
B Street Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| HOLE FOOD RESCUE | $20,000 |
| RI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ONE22 RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| HONORING OUR VETERANS | $15,000 |
| OPEN DOOR HEALTH | $15,000 |
| JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $10,000 |
| PAWS OF JACKSON HOLE | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $10,000 |
| SORRENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TETON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| RZH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +56% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2023 · $607k · revenue +90%- FBFrenchman Bay Conservancy8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +249%
- TWTHE WHEELER SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- DKDR KENNETH H MAYER FELLOWSHIP FUND (FENWAY HEALTH)one grant, 2023 · $50k
- FCFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Education and Research
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rzh Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 THE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Frenchman Bay Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds One22 Inc ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Honoring Our Veterans ↗
- Who funds Hole Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRENCHMAN BAY UNITED ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Teton County Library Foundation & Friends ↗
- Who funds BEACHWOOD CENTER FOR WELLBEING ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SORRENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RZH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Academy of Nursing ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · John and Dawn Hummel Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Giving Brands · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family 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 B Street 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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.