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Boucher Family Foundation at a glance

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Boucher Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$385k
Granted FY2026still arriving
18
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$824kPhilanthropy$125kYouth Development$62kHealth$57kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$17kHousing & Shelter$5kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $264k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johns Hopkins University$100,000
Trackside Teen Center$60,000
Voice of Hope$54,000
University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$50,000
Woodcock Nature Center$20,000
The Campaign School at Yale$20,000
Charlotte City Market$15,000
Connecticut Yankee Council$10,000
Ms President US$10,000
Wilton Library Association$10,000
Friends of Ambler Farm$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
The Trevor Project$5,000
Wilton Historical Society$5,000
Wilton Garden Club Inc$5,000
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 (FY25–26, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Bridgeport Rescue Mission: $2k → 9%Trip for Kids Charlotte: $20k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+3%

Still filing today

71%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2026 · $400k · revenue +4%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $340k · revenue +16%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC
    2× · 2024–2026 · $25k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • NH
    Norwalk Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • WE
    WILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2025 · $48k · revenue 0% · 33% of their budget
  • TF
    TRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE
    one grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
2
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
3
Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…

Education
4
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
5
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
7
Westport Library Association Inc

The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…

Education
8
Wmc-New York Inc

Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…

Health
9
Wharton Business School Club of Ny Inc

The wharton club of new york is the networking, career guidance,educational and social forum for the 25,000 plus mba and undergraduatealumni of the wharton school of business to the university of pennsylvania, in the new york city…

Education
10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
11
Wheaton Academy

Provide an educational program that is characterized by biblical values and traditional educational standards using innovative curriculum centered on a caring student/teacher relationship.

Education
12
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tails. 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

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $340,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $12,000 · EducationBleeding for Blue Fund: $125,000 · OtherBleeding for Blue FundTrackside Teen Center: $120,000 · OtherTrackside Teen CenterTHE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL INC+17 more: $56,000 · Other+17 moreVOICES OF HOPE INC: $54,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureWILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE CITY MARKET: $15,000 · HealthWILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $47,767 · PhilanthropyTHE JOE GARASSINO FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyWOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentWILTON GARDEN CLUB: $6,000 · EnvironmentTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $20,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Education$937,000Other$321,000Arts & Culture$89,500Health$65,000Philanthropy$49,767Environment$26,000Human Services$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $340,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $47,767 over 1y, 33% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $24,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWILTON GARDEN CLUB: $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAILS: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $1,000 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.

The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Boucher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boucher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 39 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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