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Bourque Family Foundation Inc

The bourque family foundation, inc. Strives to continue the impact made through ray's leadership by supporting a wide variety of charitable and educational endeavors.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$497k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$37,519
Largest grant, FY2024
$186,123
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$161k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Bourque Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$497k33%
FY20236$101k83%
FY20222$177k100%
FY20212$62k100%
FY20202$15k100%
FY20192$80k100%
FY20185$80kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$608kPhilanthropy$162kHuman Services$90kRecreation & Sports$58kYouth Development$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$40k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$306,1232n/a
John McDermott Beneficiary$161,7931n/a
The Peter Frates Family Foundation Inc$94,581228%
Windward Sails Charitable Foundation Inc$77,000213%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$50,00010%
Melmark New England Inc$50,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley Inc$30,00014%
Granite State Adaptive$30,00012%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$25,00030%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$25,00010%
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All grantees of Bourque Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$306,1232n/a
John McDermott Beneficiary$161,7931n/a
The Peter Frates Family Foundation Inc$94,581228%
Windward Sails Charitable Foundation Inc$77,000213%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$50,00010%
Melmark New England Inc$50,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley Inc$30,00014%
Granite State Adaptive$30,00012%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$25,00030%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$25,00010%
Skate for the 22 Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Journey Forward Inc$17,50011%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc$15,60011%
Joseph Middlemiss Big Heart Foundation Inc$12,50015%
Ronald McDonald House Albany Inc$10,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region$10,00011%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bourque Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Peter Frates Family Foundation Inc: $94,581 over 2y, 28% of budgetWindward Sails Charitable Foundation Inc: $77,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGranite State Adaptive: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJourney Forward Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc: $15,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJoseph Middlemiss Big Heart Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Albany Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

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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.

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Find your warmest path to Bourque Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bourque Family Foundation Inc

How much does Bourque Family Foundation Inc give?
Bourque Family Foundation Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $497,435, out of $1,100,046 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Bourque Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (60%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Bourque Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($306k), John McDermott Beneficiary ($162k), The Peter Frates Family Foundation Inc ($95k).
Does Bourque Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bourque Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Bourque Family Foundation Inc based?
Bourque Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 20 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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