· Private foundation
Deborah and Robert First Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER- JIMMY FUND | $130,739 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE-BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $51,750 |
| HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY | $36,350 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATER COMPANY | $6,250 |
| PARADIGM FOR PARITY | $5,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE - THE JIMMY FUND | $3,950 |
| SHEAKESPEARE & COMPANY | $3,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ELOHIM | $2,825 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $2,500 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| SAMUEL HUNTINGTON FUND INC | $1,000 |
| LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| RED SOX FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $293k · revenue +73%- HAHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · $178k · revenue +3%
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TCThe Committee of 200graduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +48%
- BABRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - DR KATZ EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SFSUSAN F SMITH CENTER FOR WOMEN'S CANCERone grant, 2023 · $6k
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 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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
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 and Research
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
64 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 105 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.
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- Who funds PARADIGM FOR PARITY ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds The Committee of 200 ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMUEL HUNINGTON FUND INC ↗
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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 · The Vermont Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Xenon Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Amica Companies Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Deborah and Robert First Family 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.
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Neck of the Woods Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hannah's House Inc — 6% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Longwood Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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