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Candace L and Barry R Sloane Charitable 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.

$693k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of CANDACE L AND BARRY R SLOANE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$762k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$225,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$125,000
Individual grant recipient$90,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$60,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$35,000
BRIGHHAM & WOMANS MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM$30,000
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL$30,000
CUMMINGS TUFTS VETERINARY HOSPITAL$25,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS$10,000
BAIM INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INSTITUTE$10,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$10,000
FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH$10,000
CLERGY TRUST$5,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CRANBERRY SUNSET FARM: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 25 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
24

Total granted

$2.7M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

36%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitAnimalsOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $771k · revenue +27%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $146k · revenue +30%
  • TB
    THE BASEBALL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BM
    BROWN MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $27k
  • UC
    UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • TM
    TUFTS MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
5
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
6
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
7
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
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Leslie St Fang Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr13%69%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
12%
2,698/23,461

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.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $411,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $240,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL — $200,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLBRIGHAM & WOMANS HOSPITAL — $180,000 · OtherBRIGHAM & WOMANS HOSPITALNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL — $176,000 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITALCUMMINGS TUFTS VETERINARY HOSPITAL — $91,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS — $90,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INSTITUTE — $80,000 · Other+31 more — $375,956 · Other+31 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation — $771,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $146,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc+5 more — $23,950 · HealthUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc — $11,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BASEBALL INC — $31,000 · Recreation & SportsTrustees of Tufts College — $20,150 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,843,956Health$940,950Philanthropy$56,000Recreation & Sports$31,000Education$23,150Community Improvement$15,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $771,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $146,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC — $31,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $20,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCCB FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOY POODLE RESCUE INC — $2,100 over 3y, 41% of budgetOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRANBERRY SUNSET FARM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY INC — $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT MELANOMA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds THE BASEBALL INC
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
  • Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
  • Who funds BAIM INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds THE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds CCB FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE
  • Who funds TOY POODLE RESCUE 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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Candace L and Barry R Sloane Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Ccb Foundation Inc100% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Impact Melanoma Inc3% of income from government
  • Regis College2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Candace L and Barry R Sloane Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Candace L and Barry R Sloane Charitable Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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