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Bewkes Family Foundation at a glance

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Bewkes Family Foundation

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.

$300k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$330kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$9kEnvironment$6kArts & Culture$5kHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$582k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
Columbia University Vagelos college$150,000
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 (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GYAC Gifford Youth Achievement Ctr: $500 → 12%GYAC Gifford Youth Achievement Ctr: $500 → 12%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CO
KY
MD
GA
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$325k · 9 repeat orgs$723k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
34

Total granted

$325k
$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+54%

Still filing today

33%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • CU
    Columbia University Vagelos college
    3× · 2021–2023 · $314k
  • ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue -31%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k

Funded once

  • VC
    Vanguard Charitable Gift Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $529k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +77%
  • SH
    SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +130%
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
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
2
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
3
Aquidneck Island Land Trust

To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.

Environment
4
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
5
Nantucket Historical Association

The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust Inc

To preserve and protect dartmouth's natural resources for people and nature, forever.

Environment
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is Virgin Islands Relief Fund Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 46 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanguard Charitable Gift Fund: $528,946 · OtherVanguard Charitable Gift FundColumbia University Vagelos college: $314,000 · OtherColumbia University Vagelos collegeIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+31 more: $31,100 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $528,946 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT …Trustees of Dartmouth College: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $750 · EducationALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,000 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC: $1,000 · Environment'SCONSET TRUST INC: $500 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $500 · EnvironmentUSGA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentVirgin Islands Relief Fund Inc: $2,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,024,046Community Improvement$528,946Education$15,750Environment$5,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Youth Development$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,500

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $528,946 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVirgin Islands Relief Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDASIE BRIDGEWATER HOPE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Carverdelaney Familie…Indian River Communit…The Ayco Charitable F…The Community Foundat…Boston Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Bewkes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bewkes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 46 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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