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Berry Drew Family 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 $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $555k
- $250k+1 grant · $401k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $401,000 |
| EMERSON HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $55,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| NATURERX MEDIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BEAR SPOT FOUNDATION | $9,200 |
| KICKS FOR CANCER (FRIENDS OF CONCORD CARLISLE) | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $4,130 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| RICHMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY18–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2025 · $790k · revenue +22%
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC5× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +82%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation3× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTHone grant, 2023 · $250k
- TSTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLEone grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue -16%
- DADrylands Agroecology Research Foundationone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
D-HH operates to establish, manage, govern, and fundraise for an integrated healthcare delivery System. To that end, D-HH is particularly focused to: - Manage the healthcare System to provide services to the public in the most…
Education and Research
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Tertiary care academic medical center
Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 35 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN YOUTH SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNDRED NIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends For Tomorrow 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Berry Drew 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Festival Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 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.
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