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Easton Family Fund at a glance

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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.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$272kArts & Culture$269kReligion$122kEducation$19kHuman Services$8kHealth$8kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
$1,380
Median grant
5
States reached
$736k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art MASS MoCA$26,500
Individual grant recipient$18,576
Chabad of Mumbai$15,725
Metropolitan Museum of Art$10,000
Center for Curatorial Leadership$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Project Sage Inc: $3k → 9%School of Humanity & Awareness (SoHA Foundation): $3k → 13%Project Sage Inc: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$647k · 31 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
28

Total granted

$647k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+26%

Still filing today

58%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $96k · revenue +22%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $41k · revenue +87%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • SM
    Studio Museum Harlem
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • PM
    PS1 MOMA
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SI
    SUMGATE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -681%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
12
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE ENCLOSED SCHEDULE: $271,396 · OtherSEE ENCLOSED SCHEDULEIndividual grant recipient: $64,344 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChabad of Mumbai: $58,070 · OtherChabad of MumbaiMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art MASS MoCA: $26,500 · OtherMetropolitan Opera: $25,600 · Other+35 more: $52,358 · Other+35 moreMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $95,890 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MU…THE SPENCE SCHOOL: $6,085 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOO…+2 more: $1,732 · EducationCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $41,010 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CUR…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $28,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN M…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,100 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM…THE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PR…TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $10,285 · Arts & Culture+9 morePROJECT SAGE INC: $3,520 · Human ServicesSUMGATE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentSHARON LAND TRUST INC: $850 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $250 · EnvironmentWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $100 · EnvironmentAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $1,380 · Social Science13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $1,000 · Animals
Other$498,268Education$103,707Arts & Culture$93,395Human Services$6,520Environment$2,200Social Science$1,380Animals$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $95,890 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC: $41,010 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $7,146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $6,085 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $3,520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,658 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $1,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $1,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budget13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE OF HBCU MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHARON LAND TRUST INC: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHollister House Garden Inc: $335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Low Road FoundationAg FoundationThe Ford FoundationTilia FoundationThe Jm Kaplan Fund IncPeter and Helen Haje …The Robert L and Jean…The Hallingby Family …Northwest Connecticut…Jewish Communal FundMJPM Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Easton Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Easton Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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