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Bascom Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bascom Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$122k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$420kArts & Culture$121kEducation$113kEnvironment$95kHealth$68kHuman Services$27kCivil Rights$27kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE$36,000
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS$15,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST$6,000
GOLDFARB SCHOOL OF NURSING$5,000
BUZZARD BAY MUSICFEST$5,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS$5,000
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED$4,000
MARION ART CENTER$4,000
SIPPICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,000
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC$3,000
DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN (NORTH CAROLINA RELIEF)$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER: $2k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANT CENTER: $2k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANT CENTER: $2k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANT CENTER: $2k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANT CENTER: $2k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANT CENTER: $1k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER: $1k → 11%IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANT CENTER: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
OR
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$794k · 62 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
29

Total granted

$794k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

55%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OS
    OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +52%
  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • SH
    Sippican Historical Society
    8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • CH
    CWE HOUSING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BF
    BASCOM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
7
Natural History Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
8
New England Aquarium Corporation

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.

Animals
9
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
10
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
11
Wheaton College

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…

Education
12
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; 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.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $236,100 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDSippican Historical Society: $30,400 · OtherWOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC: $26,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $25,000 · OtherGOLDFARB SCHOOL OF NURSING: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MA: $20,000 · Other+56 more: $215,000 · Other+56 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $141,600 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CH…+2 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropyOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $56,000 · EducationOUR SISTE…Leadership SouthCoast Inc: $15,000 · EducationLeadershi…DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC: $7,000 · EducationDREAM OUT…SEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $3,000 · Education+3 more: $5,000 · Education+3 moreMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $50,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI …SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentSIPPICAN …+3 more: $4,500 · EnvironmentMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $22,000 · Arts & CultureROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC: $19,500 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $18,200 · Arts & CultureBUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMarion Art Center Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BUDDHAYANA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Nurse Inc: $13,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,500 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri: $6,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalHANDS IN OUTREACH INC: $1,000 · International
Other$572,500Philanthropy$147,100Education$86,000Environment$84,500Arts & Culture$79,200Health$37,000International$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $141,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $56,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSippican Historical Society: $30,400 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC: $30,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetWOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC: $19,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $18,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Nurse Inc: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC: $7,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetDREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Arts Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDHAYANA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Buttonwood Park Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBorder Community Alliance Inc: $2,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew Bedford Festival Theatre Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPERENNIAL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetECODISTRICTS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS IN OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTS TO GIVE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAX WARBURG COURAGE CURRICULUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEED ST LOUIS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CWE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 North Carolina Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Southcoast Community …The Ludes Family Foun…Willow Creek Charitab…The Carney Family Cha…Bristol County Saving…The Quarterdeck Found…Alvord Family Foundat…Boston Foundation IncMiller FoundationThe Croll FoundationEnable Hope FoundationFirst Citizens Charit…
Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bascom Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bascom Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home