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Boer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$327kEducation$139kHealth$45kScience & Tech$15kReligion$14kEnvironment$11kPhilanthropy$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$1,250
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION$51,550
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,500
FUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DRR$7,500
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL$4,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$2,561
THE KENNEDY CENTER$2,169
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS$2,000
BB&N FUND$2,000
MT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$1,837
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$1,250
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY$1,250
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERS$1,000
DANBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BB&N FUND: $2k → 8%MT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $5k → 12%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 16%NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $11k → 14%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $52k → 6%NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%DANBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 12%MT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $4k → 12%NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $11k → 13%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $7k → 14%JEWISH HOME FOR AUTISM: $5k → 11%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $30k → 6%MT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $2k → 12%NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $6k → 14%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $22k → 6%NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $3k → 14%BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $3k → 14%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $8k → 6%NICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $2k → 14%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $6k → 6%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $2k → 14%MT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $2k → 14%AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2k → 6%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $27k → 11%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $25k → 11%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $15k → 11%FUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DRR: $8k → 14%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $12k → 11%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $10k → 11%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERS: $11k → 14%TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $5k → 14%TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $4k → 14%TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $4k → 14%TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $4k → 14%TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $3k → 14%ALLIANCE FRANCAISE de WASHINGTON DC: $3k → 14%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

VT
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$539k · 36 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
22

Total granted

$539k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

58%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentScience & TechInternationalOther
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

  • THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +89%
  • TS
    The Society of the Four Arts Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue +989%
  • TF
    TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +288%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR AUTISM
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • EF
    ENDOWMENT FOR THE DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
10
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

36 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. 36 of the 64 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $151,308 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIONThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $90,625 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts IncTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $26,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL+12 more: $13,073 · Arts & CultureNICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $82,750 · OtherNICHOLS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $25,506 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTERDANBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,686 · OtherDANBY HISTORICAL SOCIETYNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERS: $13,600 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERSFUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DRR: $13,500 · OtherFUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE DRRTHE BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $12,000 · OtherTHE BRUNSWICK SCHOOLBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $6,500 · Other+25 more: $26,055 · Other+25 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $19,028 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $13,283 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $4,750 · EducationBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $1,500 · Education+3 more: $1,250 · EducationBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $11,750 · HealthNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,425 · EnvironmentPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $3,050 · EnvironmentNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust: $1,100 · EnvironmentFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $950 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $50 · Science & Tech
Arts & Culture$281,006Other$193,597Education$39,811Health$31,750Environment$10,575International$950Philanthropy$500Science & Tech$50

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 budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $151,308 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $90,625 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $26,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $19,028 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $13,283 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $11,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,425 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE WASHINGTON INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network: $3,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH: $1,273 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlexandria Symphony Orchestra: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $50 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.

  • Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PALM BEACH ↗
  • Who funds Northern Virginia Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Alexandria Symphony Orchestra ↗

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.

The Chicago Community…The Dorothy G Bender …Greater Washington Co…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
The Chicago Community TrustIL13.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Boer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 64 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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