· Private foundation
Easton Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art MASS MoCA | $26,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,576 |
| Chabad of Mumbai | $15,725 |
| Center for Curatorial Leadership | $10,000 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $10,000 |
| Metropolitan Opera | $6,100 |
| Pan Mass Challenge | $4,106 |
| Project Sage Inc | $2,510 |
| Wassaic Project | $2,000 |
| Frick Collection | $1,658 |
| Sharon Historical Society and Museum | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Whitney Museum | $1,500 |
| American Academy of Arts & Sciences | $1,380 |
| Studio In A School | $1,030 |
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 (FY23–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $96k · revenue +11%- CFCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC4× · 2022–2025 · $41k · revenue +87%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SMStudio Museum Harlemone grant, 2022 · $4k
- SISUMGATE INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -681%
- PMPS1 MOMAone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
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."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling and the most unlike its peers is The Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81ST Street. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 67 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.
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE WASSAIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMGATE INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Music Mountain Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Tectonic Theater Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF HBCU MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES INC ↗
- Who funds 13 HANDS EQUINE 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.
Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Low Road Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tilia Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · MJPM 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 Easton Family Fund 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.
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.