· Private foundation
Donald and Yvonne Keamy 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER | $31,167 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WENDT CENTER | $10,000 |
| HAVEN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $6,800 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $5,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY-CUMMINGS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHORDS OF COURAGE | $4,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOC | $3,000 |
| MSPCA- ANGELL | $2,718 |
| PROJECT SECOND CHANCE | $2,600 |
| GREAT DOG RESCUE CHECK 509 | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +50%- HOHAVEN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +28%
- COCHORDS OF COURAGE INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +110% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +24%- MOMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $2k
LAZARUS HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -6%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
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.
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…
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…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHORDS OF COURAGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE SCHOOL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SECOND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald and Yvonne Keamy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald and Yvonne Keamy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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