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Bertram a and Ronald M Druker Charitable Fndn at a glance

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Bertram a and Ronald M Druker Charitable Fndn

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.

$575k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.9MArts & Culture$692kAnimals$400kScience & Tech$175kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$2kHealth$2kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELMONT HILL SCHOOL$500,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$50,000
BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL$19,500
PLANNED PARENHOOD OF MASSACHUSETTS INC$2,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$1,000
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$1,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY-WBUR$1,000
BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $30k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $125k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $270k → 16%SAVE VENICE INC: $1k → 17%WOMEN'S RURAL ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK: $1k → 10%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $30k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $165k → 16%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $5k → 7%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $20k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $85k → 16%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $5k → 7%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $20k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $85k → 16%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $20k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $80k → 16%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $15k → 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1k → 16%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $10k → 8%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $500k → 8%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $500k → 8%EMERSON COLLEGE: $1k → 16%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $500k → 8%PLANNED PARENHOOD OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2k → 16%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $500k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY-WBUR: $1k → 16%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $500k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY-WBUR: $1k → 16%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $280k → 8%BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $500 → 16%MSPCA-ANGELL: $100k → 16%MSPCA-ANGELL: $100k → 16%MSPCA-ANGELL: $100k → 16%MSPCA-ANGELL: $100k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $2k → 16%WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM: $500 → 16%WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 8 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$4.0M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • BH
    BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +110%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $686k · revenue +7%
  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +27%
  • SV
    SAVE VENICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +50%
  • WR
    WOMEN'S RURAL ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +93%
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 Architectural College

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

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
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
6
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
7
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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8
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum

Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.

Arts & Culture
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…

Education
11
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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12
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson College; the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $2,780,000 · EducationBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $175,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+4 more: $154,200 · EducationMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $686,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ART…+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $400,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSE…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY-WBUR: $2,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENHOOD OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentSAVE VENICE INC: $1,200 · InternationalBEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Community Improvement
Education$3,109,200Arts & Culture$688,500Animals$400,000Other$9,000Environment$2,000International$1,200Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $2,780,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $686,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $83,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $69,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RURAL ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bertram a and Ronald M Druker Charitable Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertram a and Ronald M Druker Charitable Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Bertram a and Ronald M Druker Charitable Fndn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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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