· Private foundation
Blair Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| HINGHAM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $40,250 |
| CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS | $17,500 |
| WELL SPRING MULTI SERVICE CENTER | $15,275 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOME START INC | $10,000 |
| CURE SMA | $10,000 |
| FATHER BILL'S MAINSPRING | $10,000 |
| DOVER VII ASSOCIATES LP DISTRIBUTION | $10,000 |
| YEAR UP | $10,000 |
| SAM ELIMU CHARITY | $10,000 |
| US FOUNDATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF HAITI | $5,000 |
| MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $387k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +40%- WIWELLSPRING INC7× · 2017–2024 · $379k · revenue +68%
- HIHomeStart Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- HCHingham Congregational Church Believe Capital Campaignone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +25%
- LSLewa Save A Mindone grant, 2018 · $5k
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 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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.…
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.
Education and Research
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Pku Alliance 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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds SAM ELIMU CHARITY ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds US FDN FOR THE CHILDREN OF HAITI ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES 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 · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Blair 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.
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.