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Botnick 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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$275kHealth$130kHuman Services$116kPhilanthropy$93kArts & Culture$72kHousing & Shelter$40kPublic Benefit$30kEducation$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lakes Region Food Pantry$30,000
GRANITE UNITED WAY$11,000
BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND$10,000
Families in Transition$10,000
Elliott Hospital$5,000
New Hampshire Food Back$5,000
Huggins Hospital$4,000
CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART$4,000
Leadership Institute$4,000
Hillsdale College$4,000
Fueled by Kids$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Heritage Foundation$1,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 9%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

NH
MI
MA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$743k · 14 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$743k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

71%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Food & NutritionHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • LR
    LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +111%
  • GU
    GRANITE UNITED WAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +40%
  • BP
    BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE IMPACT PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • MF
    Mills Falls Charter School
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • CC
    Collier County Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $500
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
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
2
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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3
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
4
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
5
Monadnock Community Hospital

Monadnock Community Hospital is committed to improving the health and well-being of our community. We will elevate the health of our community by providing accessible, high quality and value based care.

Health
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
7
Concord Hospital - Laconia

CH-Laconia is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.

Health
8
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
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Littleton Hospital Association

To provide quality, compassionate, and accessible healthcare in a manner that brings value to all.

Health
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC: $247,000 · Food & NutritionLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INCFueled by Kids Inc: $23,000 · Food & NutritionFueled by Kids IncGRANITE UNITED WAY: $92,500 · OtherGRANITE UNITED WAYCURRIER MUSEUM OF ART: $69,000 · OtherCURRIER MUSEUM OF ARTNEW HORIZONS: $25,500 · OtherNEW HORIZONSMartin Health Foundation: $25,000 · OtherMartin Health FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+5 more: $13,500 · Other+5 moreCatholic Medical Center: $56,000 · HealthCatholic Medic…Huggins Hospital: $44,000 · HealthHuggins Hospit…BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $90,000 · Human ServicesBALD PEAK CO…Families in Transition: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterLeadership Institute: $23,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $200 · Public BenefitHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $19,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 · EducationBOSTON BALLET INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$270,000Other$243,500Health$100,000Human Services$90,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Public Benefit$30,200Education$22,500Arts & Culture$3,000

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 budgetLAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC: $247,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY: $92,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $90,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetCatholic Medical Center: $56,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHuggins Hospital: $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFueled by Kids Inc: $23,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200 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 LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Huggins Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Families in Transition ↗
  • Who funds Fueled by Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · 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 Botnick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Botnick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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 22 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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