· Private foundation
Bascom Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $36,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS | $15,000 |
| MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST | $6,000 |
| BUZZARD BAY MUSICFEST | $5,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| GOLDFARB SCHOOL OF NURSING | $5,000 |
| SIPPICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $4,000 |
| MARION ART CENTER | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER | $3,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ST LOUIS REGION & SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +52%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +29%
- SHSippican Historical Society8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- CHCWE HOUSING CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BFBASCOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $9k
- MBMO BOTANICAL GARDENone 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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 95 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Sippican Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Leadership SouthCoast Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CWE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Arts Foundation ↗
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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Ludes Family Foundation · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Quarterdeck Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Miller Foundation · The Croll Foundation · Enable Hope Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Bascom Charitable 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.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Dream Out Loud Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.