· Private foundation
Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MIQUON SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| LOVELANE SP NEEDS HORSEBACK RDG | $11,320 |
| GNOME SURF | $8,000 |
| WORLD COMPUTER EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| MASS AUDOBON-BOSTON NATURE CENTER | $4,000 |
| CITY SPROUTS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION EITZ CHAIM | $750 |
| MUSIC FOR FOOD | $500 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM | $500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MIQUON SCHOOL6× · 2021–2026 · $72k · revenue +28%
- WCWORLD COMPUTER EXCHANGE INC6× · 2021–2026 · $65k · revenue +17% · 44% of their budget
- CICITYSPROUTS INC6× · 2021–2026 · $13k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2026 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2026 · $1k
- DCDISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUMone grant, 2026 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.
To provide small farmers (immigrants, refugees and socially disadvantaged farmers) with mentoring, training, hands-on assistance in crop productions and marketing to build their capacity necessary to operate their own sustainable farming…
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Creative City Public Charter School's teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Growing a movement for food justice and community wellness through garden-based education.
To cultivate healthy farm and food connections in classrooms, cafeterias, and communities.
Seeds is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established to implement local solutions to global issues at the intersection of ecology, education, and design.
Our mission is to empower communities to become smarter, healthier, and more compassionate people through aquaponics.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
City kids' mission is to spark intellectual curiosity in the children of boston and beyond by providing them with unique experiences and valuable educational resources. we seek to leverage new technologies to provide kids with powerful…
The Ecology School inspires stewardship of and connection to the natural world through experiential learning in ecology, conservation, farming, and sustainability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Discovery Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Music for Food Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn 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.
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
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.