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Bear Foundation- Tr
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MEDIA POWER YOUTH | $38,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN NURSERY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| CHASE HOME FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| SEACOAST WOMEN'S GIVING CIRCLE | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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 +62% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Northwestern University2× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +14%- MPMEDIA POWER YOUTH5× · 2018–2025 · $273k · revenue +66% · 53% of their budget
- RGREDS GOOD VIBES INC3× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +1% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- GCGREENLAND CENTRAL SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $25k
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +1%
- FFFOOD FOR OTHERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +33%
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.
Daycare services
Empowering our members to drive excellence and achieve the highest value in healthcare delivery and the consumer experience.
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
Serving the northshore by providing access to basic needs.
Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…
In partnership with families, we as an educational community, foster learning in a nurturing, supportive, child-centered environment immersed in nature. we teach, respect and celebrate diversity, individuality, and the whole child.
We empower churches and individuals to care for children and families impacted by foster care. we partner with churches to help them establish sustainable cultures of serice to the foster care community, with particular focus on raising
To provide developmental and educational instruction for children ages 2-5 years of age.
Root's mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through food service training and employment. by developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave root prepared for success in the workplace.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
To provide legal representation and social services advocacy to new hampshire low-income and underserved children across multiple legal contexts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chase Home for Children. 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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 8% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MEDIA POWER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds REDS GOOD VIBES INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Chase Home for Children ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST WOMENS GIVING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
- Who funds THE CORNERSTONE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST (FACT INC) ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Chase Home ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Foundation for Seacoast Health · DCU for Kids · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 Bear Foundation- Tr 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 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.
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